Word: noted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...five original Dixielanders, not one could read or write a note of music. They were New Orleans boys who improvised their own tunes, played at picnics and prizefights for what purses they could get. The bigger the purse, the more eccentric their variations. Shields would take a phrase, play all around it on his clarinet. La Rocca would pick it up for a few "licks," pass it on to Eddie Edwards' trombone. Henry Ragas' piano set the tempo. Tony Sbarbaro's drums rattled a furious counterpoint. Other New Orleans bands had similar technique but none developed...
...Note the remarkable composite of Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover in the facial appearance of Theodore Jesse Hoover (TIME photo, May 11). Can this be the candidate Republicans have been praying...
First Black Legionary of note to be arrested after the twelve "Republicans" was balloon-eared, tight-lipped Ray Ernest, Jackson State Prison guard, reputedly a "brigadier general." With four others he was accused of lashing another WPA worker, of fatally flogging a fellow prison guard who had tried to withdraw from the Legion. While newspapers painted the complicated ritual in which a Legion neophyte was asked whether he believed in a Supreme Being, could ride, shoot, drink and lie, police announced that they had raided Ernest's Jackson home, found a metal-studded whip. Mrs. Ernest, claiming to have...
...corridor. Before him a buxom Spanish charwoman was on her hands and knees scrubbing the floor. For three full minutes he stared solemnly at her healthy Andalusian contours, then a slow smile spread over the little Emperor's face. He fished in his pocket, produced a crisp ?5 note...
...NOTE ON LITERARY CRITICISM-James T. Farrell-Vanguard ($2.50). The creator of Studs Lonigan berates the reigning Leftist critics for their failure to acknowledge the "refreshment-value" of literature, insists that criticism must be "rationally established," not "absolutized and fixed...