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...including these, less than one per cent of the Faculty utilize the gymnasium facilities which they so strongly recommend for the students. The usual excuse is lack of time, but the Faculty members have just as much time as the students who have laboratory work every afternoon. Karl Sax, Professor of Botany...
...courts, cricket fields and gaming tables, or drifted from Paris hotels to Manhattan hotels, from London to the Isle of Guernsey or the British West Indies, usually fetching up at Monte Carlo or Cannes. There he hobnobbed with other well-heeled amiable drifters such as Edgar Wallace, Somerset Maugham, Sax (Fu Manchu) Rohmer, P. G. Wodehouse, the King & Queen of Siam, the King of Sweden, Lord Rothermere ("although it was before the days of his peerage"), the "inevitable" Berry Wall, Tennis Player Suzanne Lenglen, "whom I boldly declare to have possessed, in her delightfully modeled bathing suit, the most beautiful...
...127th birthday, a dance program was dedicated to the late Adolphe (Antoine Joseph) Sax, inventor of the saxophone and thereby the unwitting father of the modern dance band. Dedicator was Bandleader Shep Fields, who lately gave up his trade-mark "Rippling Rhythm," threw out his brass, concentrated on nine saxophones...
...satisfying list including a couple of old Teddy Wilsons and Decca's third Gems of Jazz set, which may have escaped someone's notice over the summer. Victor has been producing a Duke Ellington coupling every week or two. 'Twas said Ben Webster's Kansas City tenor sax wouldn't fit in with the highly sophisticated Ellington arrangements, but Duke is building backgrounds for Ben to improvise against, and on "Just a-Settin' and a-Rockin'." Ben takes off to his heart's, and our car's content...
Concerts are all very well, but where Sigurd Rascher really likes to play the saxophone is in a Swedish forest, in midwinter. "You should hear!" says he. When the New York Philharmonic-Symphony, after having given 3,542 sax-less concerts, broke down and hired him for an appearance in November 1939 he yearned to practice in Central Park, was dissuaded. He settled for an unheated apartment. Says he: "When my hands turn blue, I like it best...