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...Communists and Communist angels alike. Seventeen second-rung Communists, who were arrested last month on charges of conspiring to teach and advocate the overthrow of the Government, also appeared before Judge Ryan for arraignment. They were released on bail-$171,000 of it supplied by Field's outfit, $5,000 from Field's own pocket. Another four had eluded arrest and disappeared. It was a good guess they were in touch with Comrade Gus Hall and friends, somewhere...
Sutton decided what a jazz piano should sound like when he first heard some Fats Waller records as a Howell, Mo. grade-school boy. Employed in the six-man dance band which his father led as a weekend hobby, twelve-year-old Ralph soon began disorganizing the outfit with Waller-style chords and riffs plus a smattering of local St. Louis ragtime. At 19, his swinging, loose-jointed beat and limber wrists got him a job as pianist with Jack Teagarden's band. In 1942 he was drafted. Since the war he has wandered in & out of Manhattan jazz...
...really terrific article ... How can there be spirit in an outfit like this? Get rid of these officers and send us some men and we'll show the Pentagon an outfit...
...want to vote Republican, but I'll be damned if I'll vote for an outfit run by Taft, Wherry, McCarthy, Hickenlooper, Dewey, et al. Let's hear from Duff, Morse, Warren and other modern Republicans...
...tour of duty as a photographer in Korea, and was back in New York last winter when the news came in that the 1st Marine Division was cut off near the Changjin Reservoir. Duncan's point in pleading to go back to the Marines: no enemy outfit anywhere could smash a Marine division, and so the assignment was perfectly safe. He flew in to join the Marines, and was the only newsman to walk out with them in their bitter, fighting withdrawal...