Word: journey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jazz: Volumes I & II (Folkways Records; 4 sides LP). An interesting anthology, compiled mostly from old records, which traces the long journey of jazz, both hot and blue, from contemporary (i.e., U.S.) origins. It includes such rare and worthwhile items as the Negro sermon (with accompanying chanting) Dry Bones; the wordless wonders of Dark Was the Night, intoned by "spiritual" singer Blind Willie Johnson; Black Snake Moan, moaned by Blind Lemon Jefferson (Lead Belly's teacher); performances by such favorites as Bessie Smith, King Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton, Jimmy Yancey and Louis Armstrong...
They went back to the van. Before resuming the journey they made a routine inspection of the small compartment in which their prisoners were supposedly locked. In the floor they found a small, carefully sawed hole through which René the Stick (and his friend) had once more slipped to freedom. Remembering that promise about Christmas, the gendarmes rushed to René's apartment and arrested his wife Marinette...
...upsets. At Columbus, Ohio, in the face of 30-m.p.h. winds and blinding snow, Michigan was unable to manage even one first down, but did manage to skid past Ohio State, 9-3. Illinois, with its bags half packed for a Rose Bowl trip, was frozen out of the journey and the Big Ten title by Northwestern, 14-7. Though once tied and thrice beaten, Michigan, as conference champions, will go to the Rose Bowl. Michigan's opponent: unbeaten California, which had its record only slightly marred by Stanford...
Died. Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, 77, Denmark's leading man of letters; in Copenhagen. Author of 60-odd books and reams of essays, Jensen was most famous for The Long Journey, a massive fictional history of primitive man, won a Nobel Prize in 1944. He was seldom translated and thus little known outside Denmark, where he was a bestseller (The Long Journey did not appear in full in the U.S. until...
...Deep in the Middle East desert last week, a burnoosed Arab swung a Geiger counter over a fat steel pipe, tracing the progress of a radioactive swab inside. Behind the swab pushed a brown tide of oil, bound on a 1,068-mile journey from Arabian-American Oil Co.'s vast Saudi Arabian wells to the Mediterranean port of Sidon, in Lebanon. It was the first oil to pass through the $200 million Trans-Arabian pipeline (known as Tapline), the biggest overseas construction project ever financed by private U.S. capital...