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While occasionally on numbers like "Echoes of Harlem," the band begins to sound something like Ellington, the only outstanding thing about the band is Barnet himself. His tenor sax playing on the Lester Young (Count Basie) idea is usually good, although it occasionally sounds a little like a taxi-horn on a foggy night. His alto sax work is much better, and is probably the best imitation around of Ellingtonite Johnny Hodges. All in all, it would seem to me that the slogan. "Swing and sweat with Charlie Barnet" still holds...
...Levinthals gave their people rabbis, the last two of them Bernard Louis Levinthal, at 74 the "Dean of the Orthodox Rabbinate" in the U. S., and his son, Israel Herbert Levinthal, director of the Brooklyn Jewish Centre. The succession was broken when the only male in the present generation, Lester Lazar Levinthal, went to Harvard to study law. Though Helen Hadassah Levinthal could not take her brother's place, she was guided in her studies by a Jewish precept: " 'Study the law for its own sake'-that is, for its richness and beauty, the intellectual pleasure...
John Radford Abbet, Jr., George Augustus Barnard, 3rd, Robert Adams Bastille, Richard Milton Bloch, John Lodge Cady, Robert Manley Chase, Francis Lester Dawson, Henry Hinckley Dearing, Jr., Emil Ludwig Ebert, Norman Clifford Farnlof, John Reed Friar, Robert Loring Glass...
...League of Nations High Commissioner for Danzig is Dr. Karl Burckhardt, a Swiss professor of law whom Führer Hitler, in his last speech, called "incidentally a man of extraordinary tact." Dr. Burckhardt's "tact" consists largely of a do-nothing silence. Unlike his predecessor, fiery Sean Lester of Eire, who barked long and hard about the Nazis' repeated violations of Danzig's Constitution, Commissioner Burckhardt has uttered public words in Danzig only once and then subtly to quote from an inscription on a Danzig building: "The high things must be kept high...
...members who were just taken into the Clubs are: Dana W. Atchley, Jr. '39. Chester C. d'Autrement '41, Lester D. Berger, Jr. '40, Stan Brown '41, Gifford Kitteredge '40, Stan Brown '41, Gifford Kitteredge '40, Joseph T. Knowles '42, Irving M. Shepard '39, Michael Levin '42, S. Vaughan ocC., Francis W. Scofield '40, Llewellyn Vorley '41, Richard D. Whittemore '41, William M. Wood, 3rd '42, and John H. Wulsin...