Word: lombardos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Good shots: Director Frank Borzage's dance-floor crowds moving to hot and sweet music by Benny Goodman, Kay Kyser, Guy Lombardo, Freddy Martin...
...Fidel Velázquez, a sincere and able democrat, replaced exotic, eloquent, brilliant Vincente Lombardo Toledano (a school mate of the President's who still calls him by his first name) as secretary of Mexico's most powerful trade-union alliance (the C.T.M.). Under Velázquez the C.T.M. has been purged of Lombardo's Stalinist influence...
...Lombardo Toledano, Leftist labor leader, was fighting for control of the powerful CTM (Mexico's C.I.O.) against Fidel Velasquez, its secretary and representative of moderation. Avila Camacho's hand, as usual, was taking the edge off the controversy: betting odds favored Velasquez...
Considering that 99.99 per cent of the collectors are men and most likely in uniform now, that jazz never sold very well anyhow, and that a collector of Jazz, unlike a Lombardo-lover or Kaye-swayer, never tires of his records, it would seem downright unpatriotic to carp at the present output. Victor's latest "Smart Set" albums, however, like "Favorite Love Songs," and Songs of Imperishable Beauty," seem hardly likely to leave any of the better. Columbia reissues behind in a could of shellac. Or take the case of Half McIntyre's new band, which the gentlemen in Camden...
When a Sweet Swing devotee tries to struggle out of the ooze and goo that is Lombardo, and investigate this thing called jazz, he is generally licked from the start. He is seized upon by friends steeped in jazz lore and subjected to Gutbucket Gus and his Dixieland Breakdowners. Appalled by the seemingly mad confusion of growl trumpets and crisscrossing trombones, he yields himself again to the blandishments of the Kysers and the Kayes, who, if cloying, are at least comprehensible...