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...effect, is my favorite voice in the Ellington band--especially so since Johnny Hodges has taken to playing only sentimentally, with every appearance as soloist winding up in an ever-softening fadeout. "Rockin' In Rhythm," as always, was a good, solid performance, and even Nance's fiddle couldn't mar the beauty of "Moon Mist...
Abraham's Grandpa. Rabbi Mann's synagogue has two other means of getting across his message: the Forum and the Sunday school. Sinai's Sunday school (TIME, Mar. 11, 1935) emphasizes the latest educational theories, retains a psychiatrist to look after the 600 boys & girls. Says Mann: "It is not too important to know who Abraham's grandpa was if children can learn to live normal, happy, useful lives...
Still uncaptured last week was the Isle of Capri, in Naples Bay, with a possible prize of doubtful value-Field Marshal Werner von Blomberg, former Nazi War Minister and Wehrmacht Chief who mar ried his secretary. He retired to Capri when Hitler took control of the armed forces...
...Born in 1893, he grew up in Newburyport, Mass., went to Harvard, worked on the Boston Transcript, served in France during World War I. After a year on the New York Tribune, he tried advertising, became one of the Satevepost's most skillful authors. In his Satevepost days Mar quand created the character of Mr. Moto, a sapient Japanese detective. After Pearl Harbor Marquand interned Mr. Moto. Said Marquand: "I rather liked him . . . but now it seems I had him all wrong. A veritable wolf in sheep's clothing...
Bing Crosby was turning his million-dollar Del Mar race track in California into a "feeder" factory for a plane plant...