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...Miller fans remembered Tex Beneke best as the whiny-voiced singer of Chattanooga Choo Choo and My Melancholy Baby, or as a hard-riding tenor-sax soloist. Miller helped set up other friends, e.g., Charlie Spivak and Hal Mclntyre, with bands of their own, but Tex didn't want the responsibility. Now, when bands and nightclubs were dropping like overripe apples in a high wind, Tex keeps a payroll of more than 40 busy at a weekly overhead of $9,200. He is making no fortune at it, but a new radio contract with Miller's old sponsor...
...prefers to call it "plenty-eight"), the Duke celebrated his anniversary by playing some of his old favorites in the theater spot that is most sought after by bandleaders, Broadway's huge Paramount Theater. For some of the boys in his band, Drummer Sonny Greer, Harry Carney, baritone sax, and Guitarist Freddy Guy, it was also an anniversary. They had gone into the Cotton Club with the Duke 20 years ago. Tough little Saxophonist Johnny Hodges joined them there...
...band was wide enough, with a low-range baritone sax and plenty of trombone on one end, and a couple of trumpet men who could skid up to high F on the other, so that he could spread the chords. His music was carefully arranged except for solos. The Duke says "being able to repeat your solo is to me a virtue," a clear violation of the jazz fancier's shibboleth that only the improvised is inspired...
...KARL SAX...
...rebuttal to Professor Mather's arguments, Karl Sax, professor of Botany, pointed to the immense populations of Asia, particularly India and China, where an increased standard of living must point inevitably toward overpopulation far beyond any possible supply of resources. But Mather countered with his belief that these countries, if given encouragement from the rest of the world, would be able to solve this difficulty. The science of economic botany, he said, "is not bankrupt in Cambridge, in Chungking, or in Calcutta...