Word: miltonic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Participating players, almost a Who's Who of topflight U. S. jammers, included Clarinetists Joe Marsala, Milton Mesirow, Peewee Russell; Saxophonists Bud Freeman, Sid Bechet; Cornetists Bobby Hackett, Hotlips Paige; Pianist Jess Stacey; Trombonist Tommy Dorsey; Drummers Dave Tough and Zutty Singleton. Present also were No. 1 Swing Pundit Hugues Panassié, grey-haired Blues-writer William Christopher Handy (St.Louis Blues, Memphis Blues). This prime assortment of talent bumped slightly at the takeoff, but in the final ensemble lived up to its big names...
High thinking was promoted by barring all children's books, starting Bertha right off with Shakespeare, Milton, Jane Austen and, of course, Thoreau. Grandma allowed no gossip about people-"not people outside of books." Grandma disapproved of dolls and pets. Bertha once tried to hatch out an egg herself in order to acquire a pet, at last resigned herself to loving a tree...
Horace G. Lunt 2d '41, of Denver, Colorado; Samuel G. McClellan '41, of Evanston, Illinois; John F. McClure '39, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; Joseph R. McLoughlin '41, of Fort Washington, Pennsylvania; Dale H. Maple '41, San Diego, California; Henry W. Maxwell, Jr. '41, of Hinsdale, Illinois; Clare L. Milton, Jr. '39, of St. Joseph, Michigan; David B. Mitchell '40, of Campbellsville, Kentucky; Elbert M. Moffat, Jr. '41, of Bombay, India...
John F. Ambrose '41, Nathan Belfer '41, Phillip J. Blumberg '39, Robert M. Boyd '41, Milton P. Brown '40, Edward L. Burwell '41, Lawrence a. Campbell '39, John L. Chase '39, William N. Dale '40, Alfred Eisner '39, John J. Fernsler '40, Richard B. Finn '39, Edward A. Fox '41, Luke M. Gibson ocC, David R. V. Golding '41, Roland Kahn '41, William P. Keats...
Married. Albert Davis Lasker, 58, principal owner and former president of the Lord & Thomas advertising agency, co-founder of the University of Chicago's Lasker Foundation for Medical Research; and Doris Kenyon Sills Hopkins, 41, onetime cinemactress (Monsieur Beaucaire), concert singer, widow of the late Cinemactor Milton Sills; he for the second, she for the third time; in Manhattan. Fortnight before, Adman Lasker had been proposed as head of a committee to regulate Hollywood Producers' conduct (TIME...