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...longtime jazz buff, Rexroth got together with Saxophonist Bruce Lippincott and worked out a sketchy jazz accompaniment for his new poem, Thou Shalt Not Kill, a lengthy dirge for long-lost friends, mostly poets: "What happened to Robinson who used to stagger down Eighth Street, dizzy with solitary gin? ... Where is Leonard who thought he was a locomotive? . . . What became of Jim Oppenheim? . . . Where is Sol Funaroff? What happened to Potamkin? . . . One sat up all night talking to H. L. Mencken and drowned himself in the morning." Then the Rexroth verse turns to a super Bohemian and aman...
...jazzmen, in turn, have taken to scribbling. Lippincott. backed by his own quintet, recently recited a piece about how the guy in the combo feels when he is going way out ("We were all there waving at the hillside Picasso men who turned out to be saguaro cactuses . . . We were all there together, really, still, now, always, rotating, revolving, dancing, now, always"). The jazz accompaniments are both premeditated and improvised, but all of them are far too sketchy to stand by themselves. If the poets are sold on J. & P., most of the jazzmen are cooling on it. An exception...
Nevertheless, Princeton administrators were clearly shaken by reports of the incident. Pressed for a statement, dean of students William D'O. Lippincott took a decidedly cautious stand. "There are several aspects of this case which bother me," he said. "And while it would obviously be wrong to grant football players special consideration, it would be equally unfair to keep them from playing this afternoon on the basis of evidence which may not prove conclusive...
Dean William D'O. Lippincott said early today, "There are several aspects of this case that bother me, but still I can hardly believe that any of our Princeton undergraduates would be implicated in such an act of violence. Certainly my office will give the matter the promptest attention, but of course things must go through channels. We must not be hasty...
This morning Dean Lippincott called an emergency meeting to consider the case, but as this edition went to press the meeting was still in progress...