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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Winthrop Junior Common Room will be the scene of the second big-time jam session held at Harvard in the last four months when Pee Wee Russell, famous hot clarinetist, Bill Davison, outstanding cornetist, and some other members of Davison's band which is now playing in Boston, come out to play from 8 to 9 o'clock tonight in a program which has been arranged and will be broadcast by the Crimson Network...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jam Session Tonight Stars Russell, Davison | 8/19/1942 | See Source »

...stage were some of the greatest of jazz improvisers: gaunt, lean-fingered "Pee Wee" Russell, famed for his hoarse clarinet tones; bobbing, supple-wristed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Jazz at 5:30 | 4/20/1942 | See Source »

...There is the assurance, never to be contradicted, that you yourself, endowed with the necessary technique, could improvise a jazz solo worthy of a Louis Armstrong. There is also the glow of superiority at being a member of a somewhat select, if ever-growing, minority to which names like Pee-Wee Russell and records like "Knockin' a Jug" mean something. And finally, there is the appreciation which an acquaintance with jazz, the unique invention of the Negro, brings of this other and larger minority and its problems...

Author: By Harry Munroe, | Title: SWING | 3/13/1942 | See Source »

...exiled, has been trying to make a political comeback since 1937. He entered the campaign as an independent, played his cards so shrewdly that he got the backing of both the old-line rightist parties (Liberals and Conservatives). Though he is also backed by Chile's pee-wee Nazi party, General Ibáñez claims he is no totalitarian, merely a strong nationalist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Eleven Parties,Two Candidates | 2/2/1942 | See Source »

Cause of the order was bantamweight Brigadier General James I. Muir, commander of the 44th Division. In the battle of the Carolinas, General Muir had to get his outfit across the dried-up Pee Dee River, where the only available bridge had been "destroyed" and he could not get his motorized equipment across the rocky river bed. His solution: an order to the custodian of a power dam upstream to give him some water. The custodian deferred to military might. When the river had risen two feet, the General's engineers took guns and trucks across on improvised floats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Defense: Let There Be Water | 12/8/1941 | See Source »

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