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...automatically. Popular tunes when the Dixieland first went North were Pretty Baby, They're Wearing 'em Higher in Hawaii, Oh How She Could Yacki Hacki Wicki Wacki Woo. Soon the metropolis was cavorting to the Dixieland's own tunes, which have since become jazz classics: Tiger Rag by La Rocca, Clarinet Marmalade by Shields and Ragas, Sensation Rag by Edwards, At the Jazz Band Ball by La Rocca and Shields...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Dixieland | 6/15/1936 | See Source »

...Republic increase!" This declaration the Right greeted with derisive shouts of "Zay! Zay!"-a pointed allusion to the fact that M. Jean Zay, the new Under-Secretary to Premier Sarraut, is a notorious internationalist who once wrote a poem in which the French flag was called a "dirty rag...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Zay! Zay! | 2/10/1936 | See Source »

...Pope Unicyclist Henry S. Stone '38 Chicago Quartet Edward L. Barnes '38, Ralph Hamill '38, Joseph W. Valentine '38, Lee H. Wendell '38 MANDOLIN CLUB To a Wild Rose MacDowell Serenata Toscelli Song of the Volga Boatmen (with the Vocal Club) Russian Folk Song BANJO CLUB Twelfth Street Rag Bowman Margie Conrad and Robinson Jugglers John C. Develin '38, Whiting L. Brewer '37 Magician Edward L. Barnes '38 Football Medley Fair Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INSTRUMENTAL CLUBS START WINTER SEASON | 12/7/1935 | See Source »

...profit after a clean-up campaign against the local government, moved on to Springfield, Ill. repeated the process, went back East and did almost the same trick with the Camden, N. J. Evening Courieer and Morning Post. The Philadelphia Record was a down-at-heel Democratic rag in a Republican city when Publisher Stern took it over. In Philadelphia it now ranks commercially and politically near the top. His New York paper, the Post which he bought two years ago, has made a good deal of vulgar noise getting on its feet but has not yet proved its journalistic worth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Philadelphia Feud | 11/11/1935 | See Source »

...Moneymen Dr. Vincenzo Azzolini, dynamic Governor of the Bank of Italy, and suave Professor Alberto Beneduce who manages the State credit pools in which much of Fascist industry is kept afloat. After the briefest courtesies they sped back to Italy, leaving the other titans of finance to chew the rag. None would permit himself to be quoted, but said one: "Only a few months ago Italy's credit position was such that she was desperately cutting down and rationing her imports, yet now she is importing war supplies from everywhere. She has taken such drastic measures as to withdraw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Ethiopia's Week | 7/22/1935 | See Source »

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