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...background, while two go-go girls shimmy in the foreground. The band, massed in a double row facing the audience, is a discotheque in itself. While punching out blues riffs over a pile-driving beat, the brass and saxophone players whirl their instruments around and swivel through the shing-a-ling, the funky Broadway, and other loose-jointed steps-some of their own devising. Leaders in each section use hand signals to cue the choreography...
...DONALDSON: MR. SHING-A-LING (Blue Note). Following the success of his Alligator Bogaloo, Donaldson now applies his jazz alto, accompanied by trumpet, organ, guitar and drums, to such recent familiars as The Shadow of Your Smile and Ode to Billie Joe. Since he never wanders far from the melody on these tunes, those who get lost easily in jazz improvisation need not fear for their direction. More venturesome listeners may feel that Donaldson has settled for a too-safe format...
...lawyer hopefully contended that substituting a cakebox for a rooster was highly irregular and invalidated the ceremony. But Magistrate Hin Shing-lo ruled that because of Yip's superstition, the cakebox was legal; he ordered Wat to pay $17.50 a month maintenance henceforth to his lawfully wedded wife. His lawyer urged Wat to appeal, but Wat had had enough. He accepted the court's ruling and next day boarded a ship-alone-for the unmysterious West...
...possible. Democracy was not then counted a good security in Washington; but tung oil-essential in high-grade paints and varnishes-would do. So Chen founded Universal Trading Corp. in Manhattan to manage tung-oil sales, earmarking one-half the proceeds to pay the debt. He then organized Foo Shing Trading Corp. in China to gather and ship the oil, went home to direct...
Open hostilities began with the sinking of the Kow-Shing, July 25. Soon after the Chinese were crushingly defeated in the land battle of Ping Yan, which gave Japan control of Corea. It will undoubtedly be reckoned among the decisive battles of the world. The next day the Japanese were victorious in the great naval battle at the mouth of the Yalu. This gave them control of the sea and opened the way to the Gulf of Pechili, as the battle at Ping Yan had cleared the approaches to Manchuria. These two battles practically decided the war. The Chinese were...