Word: rhythm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rhythm," Valpey kept saying, "you must have rhythm." Valpey preached rhythm and kept things businesslike. Observers compared yesterday's turnout and spirit to last year's spring practice and were grimed for the first time since last November...
...released until later today, this morning's unofficial listing included: Al Capp, cartoon genius; Arthur Valpey, new Varsity football coach; Vern Miller '42, Boston sports writer who will M.O. the evening; one Mile. Charpentier, a mystery at present: the Dunster Dunees; a quartet from Wellesley; the Final Rhythm Kings: an entire U.S.O. entertainment unit; and possibly Victor Forge piano-playing radio...
...Police Day speaker had barely begun when an unexpected incident occurred. From the gauntly Gothic cathedral, past the huge monument of John Huss at the stake, rolled organ music. Policemen soon silenced the inappropriate sound, and the celebration continued. But throughout the world, people with an ear for the rhythm of history knew that what happened in Prague last week had happened before and would, quite possibly, be repeated in capital after capital...
...words were written specially for her, to an old blues tune,* but otherwise the musicians make no concessions to her age. Toni doesn't need any. Her breathy voice is grownup, her phrasing fresh, and her rhythm as good as if she had been singing since the birth of the blues...
Toni got her rhythm naturally. Her mother was once in the Cotton Club chorus, has always wanted her kids in show business. And her father, a redcap at Los Angeles' Union Station, owns a roomful of hot records-Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, Louis Jordan. "Daddy likes to riff," says Toni sternly. "'Sometimes he keeps us awake all night." But two years ago, Toni began riffing...