Word: spanier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...laid down his licorice stick, was making his way to the stand with a big white cake decked with three blue candles. He set the cake down, beckoned to a little cornetist with a droopy leprechaun face, bade him stand up and take a big bow. Francis ("Muggsy") Spanier, whom some Dixieland experts consider the best white jazz cornetist in the business,* grinned sheepishly. It had been just 30 years since Muggsy Spanier first split the smoky air of a dive in his native Chicago with a broad burst of brass...
Married. Francis Joseph ("Muggsy") Spanier, 46, sad-eyed hot-jazz cornetist; and Ruth Gries O'Connell, 44, onetime advertising copywriter; both for the second time; in Chicago...