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Michigan's cagey Coach Fritz Crisler was weary of denying that his boys were twice as fast and slicker than a riverboat gambler. To newsmen he confessed sarcastically: "Sure, everyone's a star around here." A few days later, with bands blaring and the first hint of autumn in the air, Crisler's boys took poor Michigan State apart...
...intrepid clipper skipper braving a typhoon singlehanded; the terror of the Luftwaffe and the toast of the R.A.F.; a coldly insolent, julep-sucking riverboat gambler; the surgeon who takes over when all seems lost and is soon able to say, "Don't cry, little girl, your brother will play the violin again." And in every one of these heroic visions the same lovely blonde (Virginia Mayo) is on hand to worship...
...Cold Room. One day last week he had his chauffeur drive him over to the Village. The River Rouge was swollen with rain. The old paddle-wheel riverboat, Suwanee, one of his relics, had sunk at her permanent anchorage. The river had submerged the lowlands, flooding the cellar of Ford's own mansion. The big house was without electricity or telephone service, heated only by open fires...
Trombonist Turk Murphy, who uses an empty gallon paint can for a mute, used to sit in with Bunk Johnson. Banjoist Henry Mordecai once played guitar, caught the jazz fever and bought three riverboat banjos so he could switch from one to another when his ferocious strumming broke the strings. Drummer Bill Dart has fingers like crowbars, drums almost exclusively on wood blocks and a washboard. Pianist Wally Rose, a man with a solid beat, also plays Bach and Chopin...
Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Count Basic, Bix Beiderbecke and Frank Teschemacher. Decca has marketed such choice collections as Riverboat Jazz and Harlem Jazz, 1930. Asch has continued to record the jazz chamber music played in Manhattan's nightclubs by Mary Lou Williams and Art Tatum...