Word: nicks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most conspicuous absentees at Eddie Condon's opening were some of Condon's fellow Chicagoans: Trombonist Milfred ("Miff") Mole, Cornetist Francis Xavier ("Muggsy") Spanier, who play a half mile away, at Nick's in the Village-where Condon played until about two years ago. (Twelve blocks away, Manhattanites could hear the far more virile and exciting New Orleans Negro jazz of Cornetist Bunk Johnson-TIME, Nov. 5.) Some of Nick's parishioners were scattered among Condon's opening-night audience, lost among the celebrities and the Hoosiers. "You know, Hoosiers," explained Condon, himself the ninth...
...service side . . . drove the ball into the winning gallery on the hazard side for the deciding point. ... In the final game ... he boasted the ball to the main wall to find the dedans on his return of service. Then, changing sides to play off chases, he found the nick no less than three times with his service. The crowd shook its head in amazement. . . . [Whitney] was having the time of his life...
...even a last-minute injury to fullback Tommy Scannell and the continued inactivity of tackle Nick Fusilier have seemed to dampen the Yale squad, which will meet a Crimson eleven that hit its peak in the Brown game two weeks ago and has not had a chance to show itself again since then...
Dottin so many words is dot: Harvard will be Cartyng another scalp down to New Haven next week, which doesn't seem to be worrying the Elis so much as the loss of veteran tackle Nick Fusilli, who will definitely be out of the game that really counts...
...many another bandleader has tried to imitate what Lombardo calls his organ tone, his publicity man calls "the sweetest music this side of heaven," and others call just this side of mooing. Imitators have had their men tune off key, nick their reeds and pour warm milk into the bells of their saxophones, but they have never quite hit it. Guy says his sweet simple music is "for people already in love or potentially in love. . . . We try not to displease anyone...