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Hazel Scott was slated, but fortunately couldn't make it. Any substitute would be an improvement, and Una Mac Carlisle is a very great one. She's a protege of Fats Waller, contributing mightily to his classic record of "I Can't Give You Anything But Love." Una is no...
The high point of the program, for me, was the duo compositions by Duke's talented protege, Billy Strayhorn, "Dirge" and "Stomp." They are considerably far ahead of anything this young man has done so far, and come close to overshadowing much of Duke's work, on this program at...
Last week the official Berlin radio confirmed the report that Haider had been replaced and identified his successor: non-Junker, 47-year-old General Kurt Zeitzler, long a friend and protege of the Gestapo's Heinrich Himmler, for whom the Army Prussians have no love. Gustav Siegfried Eins, still...
Werner William Schroeder's rise in the G.O.P. stems from the turbulent days of the late Len Small, onetime Governor of Illinois. Small made him his protege; gave him his first job at 16 addressing letters. When Small won the governorship in 1920, Schroeder became Secretary of the State...
Gentleman in Arkansas. James William Fulbright is young (37), handsome, wealthy and a Rhodes scholar (1925). He talked and whittled his way into the hearts of farmers and storekeepers in Arkansas' mountainous Third District and won the Democratic Congressional nomination against Supreme Court Justice Karl Greenhaw, a protege of...