Word: kicked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Monkey Suit. In San Jose, Calif., a man sued his wife for divorce on grounds she took her pet monkey to bed with them. Ruling that a man too supine even to kick his wife's monkey out of bed deserved no divorce, Judge Charles Davison granted the decree to the wife instead...
...melodic potentialities of his instrument. The result is that Hall plays the best hot music you can hear on clarinet these days. Every note is a rhythmic best, hard and staccato, a method of playing which can pick up even the most lifeless of bands and make them really kick. Yet at the same time he never forgets his own musical ideas, and expresses them with a spontaneity which can be awfully refreshing after listening to Artie Shaw choruses, which are executed with a clever facility, but completely lacking in any sort of melodic organization...
...kick had anyone with FCC's engineering findings. But papers like Manhattan's New York Post screamed long and loud against the squelching of WCNW. Pointing out that WCNW had broadcast Chinese and Negro programs, while WWRL was busy airing Father Coughlin and similar stuff, the Post demanded that the case be reexamined. Last week WCNW's Owner Faske followed suit, requested FCC to reconsider its decision. Although Owner Faske is no chum of FCC, the Commission at week's end wearily prepared again to try to clear the cluttered air around Brooklyn...
...tunes Bobby plays are the old ones, Muskrat Ramble, At the Jazz Band Bali, Sugar and the like, and if anybody knows how to make those old numbers really kick, it's Hackett. Furthermore, there's Brad Gowans (valve trombone), the one musician Bobby brought with him from New York. It's not the kind of smooth staff which generally achieves public acclaim, but then Tommy Dorsey never played hot. Take your choice. Finally, it's pleasant to learn that the Versailles will have its first Sunday evening jam session tomorrow. Bobby will M.C., and Pee Wee Russell...
...away as Mexico the scare was on. Germans in Mexico City talked about the coming assault on Britain with gas, bombers, gliders, submarines and everything but poisoned arrows. At the same time the Fifth Column in Mexico got ready to kick up trouble to divert the U. S. the minute the big push started...