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Outraged Justice Conway fined Al Warner $500, jailed him for 60 days. Sheriff William Pollack, after much delay, fired Deputy Warner, two of the women assigned to Mrs. Muscarella, and the deputy who did nothing about the "fixer." Unhappily for Sheriff Pollack, public indignation was not appeased. "In the interest of law and order in Erie County," the Buffalo Evening News last week proposed that the New York Legislature let Erie County elect no more sheriffs, perhaps substitute a non-political employe under Civil Service. Buffalo and Erie County have come a long way since 1872. Their sheriff then...
...members of the Secretarial Heard are; Norman N. Griffith '42, Alexander H. Pollack '42. Rolaud E. Shaine '42; elected to the Buetness Hoard were; Lawrence E. Shulman '41, Stafford McLean '43, and William P. Beruton...
Nine years ago a band leader named Ben Pollack was drawing hot music's purists to Chicago's Southmoor Hotel. His band, a future who's who of jazz, included a solemn, bespectacled clarinetist named Benny Goodman, a shockheaded, galvanic drummer named Gene Krupa, a rangy, adolescent trombonist with an Iowa accent named Alton Glenn Miller. As the years went by, and hot jazz built up from a provincial ripple to a national tidal wave, Clarinetist Goodman rode to shore on its crest and was crowned King of Swing...
...youngster named Artie Shaw. Last March, while King Goodman and Pretender Shaw fought a battle of music in Newark, N. J. (TIME, March 6), a brand-new band was drawing some discriminating New Jersey jitterbugs to the Meadowbrook Club in neighboring Cedar Grove. Leading it was Ben Pollack's old trombonist, Glenn Miller...
Notes between the notes: Word has slipped through that Benny Pollack, famous old Dixieland band leader, has sued Benny Goodman, Bob Crosby and various other people for swiping some of his arrangements, "Bugle Call Rag" being mentioned specifically. This may or may not be true. But, if this sort of suit is going to be the fashion, most of the country's better band leaders are going to end up behind the bars. It's been the custom for sometime to swipe ideas from everyone on standard tunes such as "Bugle Call Rag"...Artie Shaw has been sued for another...