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...order. Mr. Feather is another one of our imported critics and as such labors under some of the same handicaps that were sketched here in a previous column about Hugues Panassie. As an arranger and composer he hasn't acquired quite enough of the American jazz idiom. "Mop Up," "My Ideal" and numerous other Commodore records handled by Feather on which numbers of big guns in the jazz world have emitted nothing but pops illustrate comprehensively his type of cramping, pseudo-modernistic, flagrantly artificial arrangements. Here we have the reverse of the King Midas situation, for it seems...
...P.A.C. was bored with Alabama's primary campaign. One candidate afforded a spark of interest and amusement. He was 37-year-old James Elisha ("Big Jim") Folsom, a 6 ft. 8 in. shouter of tall promises, who campaigned for the governorship with a five-piece hillbilly band, a mop and a bucket ("to clean up the State Capitol"), and P.A.C.'s blessing. He had run for various offices four times, had been elected only once-to be a delegate to the 1944 Democratic National Convention (where he plunked for Henry Wallace...
...says is, "Gimme some skin!" (Mop...
...time, Rocky tries to dress the part. His idea of what the well-dressed man should wear is a dirty polo shirt; he buys a new zoot suit every month, lets a pal break it in, seldom sees it again. His dislike of barbers keeps a mop of black hair flopping over his eyes...
...Mop the charlady repeatedly interrupts Handley to ask: "Can I do you now?" During the bombings, people crushed under the rubble sometimes called to rescue diggers...