Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made. Careless Love is W. C. Handy's arrangement of what is almost a U. S. folk song. Trombone Cholly, with the late Trombonist Charlie Green playing among Bessie Smith's "Blue Boys," is a classic for all connoisseurs of the "sliphorn." For Backwater Blues, James P. Johnson, teacher of "Fats" Waller, furnishes an able piano accompaniment. Only three of the twelve sides in the Bessie Smith Album are devoted to Broadway songs: Muddy Water, Alexander's Ragtime Band, There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight...
When a year ago last April blue-eyed handshaking William Harding Johnson rolled up in his shiny new official Cadillac to take his new office as Chicago's Superintendent of Schools, in the eyes of good government agitators there were two strikes against him. He was Board of Education President James B. McCahey's man, and between McCahey and Chicago's Mayor Edward Joseph Kelly there was too close a partnership to suit watchdogs of Chicago's schools. Board Member Mrs. William S. Hefferan had quoted ten civic leaders: "The precipitous appointment of Dr. Johnson...
With the prospects for the coming season about the same as they were at this time a year ago, mat enthusiasts expect no new innovations in wrestling technique but hall with delight the "Harkness Special" which appeared for the first time yesterday. According to Johnson, number one match with M.I.T. will be a "walkaway" with chances for victories over Pennsylvania and Yale still decidedly in the balance...
...berth, with Bosler now ruling favorite. Weak point in the outfit is 126-1b, division in which two Sophomores, Jim Sears and Louis Daily have been working together. Daily, a Freshman substitute has been able to keep the last year's 118-pounder on the ground, but Johnson expressed confidence that Sears will improve...
...Louis Ach has decided to come down one step to vie with Harvey Ross for the 118-1b. place. Ross, former Milten captain and a Junior this year, kept a clean slate in '36, had a medloore record on the Varsity. To boost the 126-1b. class Johnson may have Ach go back to his old position...