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...book, "The Complete Swimmer," on the aquatic art to be published on May 2. Not to be outdone by Oologist Richard Cresson Harlow who has been named a curator of birds' eggs, Ulen has ventured into the literary field in accord with the University's well-known desire for books to be written...
Last Monday night a tornado from out of Kansas City shuffled into town, settled down at the Southland, and proceeded to agitate all the window shades, rugs, and sundry jitterbugs gathered therein. Agitation was headed by Lester Young, tenor sax for the tornado, commonly known as Count Basie's band...
...good description of the way in which the Basic band plays. There is a sense of almost overwhelming power about the band, due to its great rhythm section and general ability to relax, that creates immense swing without being noisy. This is typical of what is known as Kansas City swing (Andy Kirk and Jimmy Lunceford are bands of the same style); whenever you hear a band playing with that feeling of being just behind the beat, but not worrying too much about catching up, and brass with great solidity but not noise, you have Kansas City swing and music...
Notes between the notes: Boston, supposedly a non-swing town, has Duke Ellington at the Roseland and Jack Teagarden at the Raymor tonight, Woody Herman and Harry James in a battle of swing at the Roseland tomorrow, and Basie at the Southland . . . Not generally known, but still true is the Anglo-Saxon word for music: "swin(g)" . . . Word slips through from New York that Teddy Wilson's new band will open at the Famous Door late in April; and that Bud Freeman is going to take a mixed band into one of the night spots. A grand idea:--Goodman started...
Although the parties of the left have always been known for the bitterness of their quarrels, it has been left to Stalinism to introduce the methods of slander, kidnapping, murder, and frame-up trials. You all know of the Moscow confession trials. . . . Perhaps you know of the slander campaign against John Dewey and other liberal and radical figures for their participation on the Committee for the Rights of Asylum for Leon Trotsky. In Loyalist Spain where the G.P.U. was much more in evidence than Russian arms, the Trotskyites and the POUM were murdered and framed by the Stalinists...