Word: rag
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Encounter, by Crawford Power. Crime & punishment in a rag-tag underworld teaches proud Father Cawder that "it's no part of a priest's business to pass on people like a judge"; an unsentimental first novel on a Graham Greene-ish theme (TIME, June...
...prominent literary critic was in Cambridge trying to interest the people over at Brittle Hall in producing a play he had just written. Nothing over came of it, and had the playwright not been named Edmund Wilson, the general public might have been spared such a preposterous serving of rag-tag dialectics as his "The Little Blue Light...
...catalogue paper was handmade in England; fine old castoff linen shirts from Italy provided its basic rag stock. The ink, pure lampblack carbon and linseed oil unadulterated by modern aniline dyes, was specially ground in Germany in 1928. A new type font was designed by Jan van Krimpen, cast in The Netherlands. Two three-ton hand presses were shipped from England to Pittsburgh for the actual printing...
...wagon began to roll last fall when Jimmy Dorsey played hooky from his big dance band long enough to record Johnson Rag and a Dixieland version of Charley My Boy with an easygoing eight-piece group called the Original "Dorseyland" Jazz Band. The relaxed, free-wheeling music caught the public's ear, and the Dorseylanders quickly followed with an album including such old standards as Jazz Me Blues, South Rampart Street Parade, and High Society. The album soon hit Variety's list of the top-five bestsellers, has stayed there for six weeks...
...bandleaders decided to take a ride too. Phil Harris cut in with Muskrat Ramble and Walk with a Wiggle, planned also to make his next album with a New Orleans beat. Tommy Dorsey hastily reassembled his old Clambake Seven to record Way Down Yonder in New Orleans and Tiger Rag. Gene Krupa parked his successful 16-piece band, picked up a six-man crew in & around Greenwich Village and recorded his first oldtime jazz in more than ten years. Exchanging his tux for shirt sleeves and slacks, Drummer Krupa, who had his first taste of jazz from Louis Armstrong...