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Benitin y Eneas: Mutt and Jeff...
...Play. The Museum directors had a still more ambitious idea. They decided to surround Bunk with colleagues from the New Orleans past. They found Papa Mutt Carey, famous "dirty" trumpeter, working as a Pullman porter on the Southern Pacific. They got Kid Ory, greatest of oldtime tailgate* trombonists, from Los Angeles, where he had been raising chickens. They tracked down Clarinetist Wade Whaley at the Moore shipyards on San Francisco Bay. Ringing doorbells in San Francisco's Negro section, they finally located Bertha Gonsoulin, onetime pianist for Jelly Roll Morton and King Oliver. They added local Negro talent...
...rackets in gas coupons have been the most flagrant of all, are bound to get worse as the oil-rich west is subjected to rationing. In New York City OPA broke up a gas-coupon pool that sounded like the Al Capone days, included gangsters called "Red," "Lefty," "The Mutt" and "Bananas." A Utica ring stole 8,450 "B" and "C" books, peddled them through a long chain of New York City racketeers who kept hijacking them from each other. OPA got its first big clue from frisking a murdered gangster in Queens who had not" had the foresight...
...mills, is one of the biggest pieces of humble pie Leon has yet eaten. When he fixed his original textile ceiling, Henderson had his eye on cotton speculators (among them the mills), overlooked the fact that in the long run prices of cotton and cotton goods go together like Mutt & Jeff. Before the revisions, the basic goods ceiling was 43?. But this price was set in July when cotton was 1-2? cheaper than it has been since. Thus for months the cotton goods markets slumbered as mills turned away hundreds of clamoring buyers rather than sell at prices they...
Hopes for a Dorm victory hang on "Mutt Ray" Saltonstall, the sterling dorm center, and the intricate plays with which basketballer Ed Buckley has provided his brood...