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Missing. Lieut. General Millard Fillmore ("Miff") Harmon, 57, studious, unstarched commander of Army Air Forces, Pacific; in a converted Liberator bomber; en route from a forward Pacific base to Hawaii. His ability and knack at coordinating Army, Navy and Marine forces prompted Admiral Halsey to call him "Rock of Gibraltar." Successor: his deputy, rugged Major General Willis Henry Hale...
...Saturday in Gotham: Dropped over to Commodore Music Shop to protest the issuing of "Mop Mop" and picked up some new dises ... Best of these were "Clarinet Marmalade" with Bill Davison, Ed Hall, and Brunies; "Squeeze Me" by Yank Lawson, Miff Mole, and Cless; and the same tune recorded by Cliff Jackson, and Pee Wee ... For lovers of boogie there is a new "Streamlino Train" by Cripple Clarence Lofton on Session label ... Next to Condon's Town Hall broadcast featuring excellent Butterfield, Kaminsky, Mole, and Muggsy along with poor Krupa and indifferent Haggart ... Saw Haggart in the bar next door...
...Bozo, an old New Orleans man himself, insisted that Louie played the river with King Oliver on the Capitol before the King went to Chicago, despite the statement of many critics to the contrary ... Caught the dinner show at Nick's, where Pee Wee comes out at night and Miff Mole looks at his watch every five minutes to make sure that he doesn't play overtime ... Then to Cafe downtown for a word with Josh White ... Benny Morton's band just moved in with some tasty clarinet by Prince Robinson...
...talent in Saturday afternoons of the rarest syncopated heat. Last week Condon went on the air for the first of 13 weekly broadcasts (Blue Network, Sat. 3:30 E.W.T.). His opening burst, a wow, featured such vintage improvisers as Trumpeters Max Kaminsky and Oran "Hot Lips" Page, Trombonist Milfred "Miff" Mole, Clarinetist Ellsworth "Pee Wee" Russell, Pianist James P. "Jimmy" Johnson...
...WOUND AND THE Bow-Edmund Wilson-Houghton Miff...