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...violinist in three symphonies, for ten years head of the department of theory and composition of the New York Philharmonic Scholarship School and for the past year the editor in charge of TIME'S music department (but not of this review), Winthrop Sargeant is not concerned in his Jazz: Hot and Hybrid* with the question of whether Benny Goodman is a better hot clarinetist than Joe Marsala or who played the piano on Fletcher Henderson's record of Wang Wang Blues. Instead, he rolls up his sleeves and squares off with a lucid chapter on "Improvisation, Notation...
Jazz interests Scholar Sargeant but does not fascinate him. He finds it "an art without positive moral values, an art that evades those attitudes of restraint and intellectual poise upon which complex civilizations are built. At best it offers civilized man only a temporary escape into drunken self-hypnotism." Like the American skyscraper, movie plot and funny paper, Jazz has no conclusion. But, admits Author Sargeant, it has vitality and, maybe, a future...
Coach Chester Sargeant's Varsity polo team will meet the Eli quartet in a feature match in Chicago tonight, and Saturday they will journey back East to Ithaca to cross mallets with the Cornell team. The encounter with the Big Red replaces the previously scheduled tilt with Toronto Royal Canadian Dragoons...
...other game, Leverett won over Winthrop 13 to 7 in two innings, completing the game which was called off at the end of the fifth inning Wednesday. Ernie Sargeant, Bunny pitcher, struck out three Winthrop men in the seventh inning to end the game...
...Commuters were never in trouble pillel gaining a four run lead in the last inning. Larry Alexander pitched for the winners while Jim Monkman and Tiny Sargeant huried for the Bunnies...