Word: savoyism
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...Crimson Stompers, the College's Dixieland jazz band, opened their activities this past week with two appearances at Boston's Savoy Cafe, local stronghold of Dixio...
Died. Sigmund Gale, 77, who in 1926 founded (with his son Moe) Harlem's Savoy Ballroom, "Home of Happy Feet" to thousands of Harlemites; of a heart attack; in Harlem. At the Savoy, dance-floor innovators worked up the Lindy hop, trucking, the Susie-Q; there, as unknowns, Ella Fitzgerald, Erskine Hawkins, the late "hick Webb found a place to show their talents...
Efficiency Expert. In Washington, D.C., Hosea Savoy explained why he had burglarized the same store three times: "It was near my home and I didn't want to walk...
...because it was a fraud; and in 1390 Pope Clement VII issued a special bull ordering that it should be treated only as "a painted representation of the original, authentic Holy Shroud, whose whereabouts are unknown." Since 1452 the cloth has been the property of the Italian House of Savoy. On special occasions it was exhibited to the faithful, but in the 19th Century, at least, it seems to have appeared not as a painting but as a soiled and damaged piece of white linen...
Volunteering their services for the affair are trumpeter Frankie Newton and his band from the Savoy, the Crimson Stompers of Walter H. Gifford, Jr. '52, Charlie Mariano's Boptet, and Station WMEX's folk-singer, Shep Girnandez...