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...Chicago, his home town, Benny Goodman was making a sensational stay at the Congress Hotel, was somewhat ambiguously lauded in a full-page advertisement on the back page of Variety as the possessor of an "individual hot-sweet 'swing' style, " had just played a Sunday afternoon recital to 800 Chicago jazz academicians who would no more have thought of dancing than they would of gavotting at a symphony concert. Clearly, Goodman, who played his first professional date in short pants on an excursion boat, was the Man Of The Hour to thousands of jazz fans...
Last week's conclave in Chicago was no exception. Prize article on the block was the Philadelphia Athletics' genial, broad-beamed James Emory (''Jimmy") Foxx, twice voted "most valuable player" in the American League, propeller of 58 home runs in 1932, possessor of a lifetime batting average of .338. Casting covetous eyes at him was Thomas Austin Yawkey, equally genial and broad-beamed owner of the onetime lowly Boston Red Sox. Tycoon Yawkey paid $1,000,000 for the club three years ago, spent $2,000,000 more to raise the tailenders to fourth place...
Early season practices and the Framingham High School slaughter proves that there are four outstanding men who should dominate the forward walls. Austie Harding, first line center, the fastest skater on the squad and the possessor of an almost infallible shot, will undoubtedly hold his position among the favored. The Milton Academy wingmen who seem to be slated to flank the Noble's flash are Pete Stone and Miff Scaife. Eight of the Crimson goals against Framingham were rung up by this trio...
...Harold Nicolson's hands an intelligent and exhaustive review such as few U. S. capitalists have enjoyed. Beginning with an apology for the inability of an English author to comprehend all the factors of a U. S. background, Harold Nicolson presents Morrow as a "completely civilized man," the possessor of an extraordinarily modern type of mind. His apology is misplaced, since Dwight Morrow reveals Nicolson's remarkable grasp of U. S. history, politics, social life, but nowhere establishes convincingly its subject's claim to originality, insight, achievement or potentiality...
Explaining Grant's stubborn friendship with gross and clumsy thieves on the familiar "blind spot" theory, Dr. Hesseltine notes that the President was so conscious of his years of business failures that he considered any man who could make a little money as the possessor of vast and mysterious gifts. But Grant's blind spot seems to have been singularly elastic, now large and now small, now enabling him to see through the most ingenious maneuvers of his enemies and now permitting him to adhere to men like Babcock, his confidential secretary, who "fished for gold in every stinking cesspool...