Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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German fighters were back in France in force. For once R.A.F. pilots were glad to see them. Eight RA.F. fighters were shot down (and nine German), but the price was low. More important was the fact that the Germans, after weeks of token fighter resistance, now had plenty of pursuit in the air. To the R.A.F. that meant that the blitz was beginning to help their Rus-sian ally as well as hurting their German enemy in his industrial and military establishments. They were sure that some of the fighters they met over France came from Russia. They were also...
...While vast schemes are going forward for converting to agriculture more of the one-sixth of Scotland that is locked up in huge, private hunting preserves, Benedictine monks at Fort Augustus have hiked up their habits and converted ten acres of monastery land into a victory garden. From low-ceilinged island cottages comes the never-ending keening of Heb-riden women mourning their men lost...
...years there, Dean Donham has seen and made many changes. In 1919 Harvard's Graduate School of Business consisted of 19 students (some under-graduate), a bookkeepers' curriculum, no classrooms of its own, no library, no prestige. It accurately reflected the low esteem accorded to business by U.S. educators generally. In that year, memorable for its epidemic of violent strikes, Harvard's President A. Lawrence Lowell handed over the Business School to a chubby, 41-year-old Yankee, Wallace Donham. Commented one professor on the decrepit state of the school: "We were a faculty of crocks teaching...
...firm rhythmic background characteristic of this band. The result is satisfactory, but the lyrics aren't given the rich, vibrant interpretation they get from Al Morgan these spring evenings down at the Savoy, where Sabby Lewis's boys often play over their heads backing him up. That authentic, low-down atmosphere of the blues loses itself in the dressiness of the performance...
...will find the atmosphere, though in the Libby Holman records. It's just a guitar that accompanies the Moanin' Low Voice, and the music is very simple and, yes, sincerely done. It is the sort of thing that he who doesn't generally appreciate jazz will find easy and satisfying to listen to, and I suppose this album will make the blues fashionable among what's left of the carriage trade that used to love Libby...