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...forward walls. Austie Harding, first line center, the fastest skater on the squad and the possessor of an almost infallible shot, will undoubtedly hold his position among the favored. The Milton Academy wingmen who seem to be slated to flank the Noble's flash are Pete Stone and Miff Scaife. Eight of the Crimson goals against Framingham were rung up by this trio...
...teach me to play the trumpet and give me his old associate, Miff Mole, as trombonist, I'll be very pleased to swap jobs, income and worries about taxes and expenses with him. And in addition I'll throw in a fine assortment of rejected manuscripts...
...would be able to express: that the true heroes of jazz are not the well-advertised Whitemans, Lombardos and Vallees, but an inner circle of such amazing virtuosi as Saxophonists Jimmy Dorsey, Coleman Hawkins, Frank Trum-bauer, Adrian Rollini; Trumpeters Louis Armstrong, Red Nichols, the late Bix Beiderbecke; Trombonists Miff Mole, Jack Teagarden, Tommy Dorsey. M. Coffin distinguishes between le jazz straight et hot, denotes les classiques du hot, discusses their sources and development, arrives at a conclusion which has long seemed obvious to devotees: that the best jazz, which enjoys little public 'recognition, is an intricately exciting music...
...DANCE OF LIFE ? Havelock Ellis ? Houghton Miff tin ($4.00). Havelock Ellis, psychologist and essayist, called "the most civilized Englishman living today," writes his philosophic view of life and the living thereof. "It has always been difficult," he begins, "for Man to realize that his life is all an art." In the development of his thesis?which is considerably more an attitude than a theory?Mr. Ellis has written what will probably stannd as one of the most significant achievements of contemporary thought...