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...articles. Since Surgeon Ochsner and four Tulane colleagues started the clinic in 1941, it has treated 70,000 patients. Among them are many Latin American millionaires and government officials who find Dr. Ochsner and New Orleans simpático. Other Ochsner patients: the late Senator Theodore Bilbo, Trumpeter Muggsy Spanier...
...Lower Level), the big names were a couple of refugees from Manhattan. New York's Swing Street (52nd) and Greenwich Village were in the doldrums: many of the honky-tonk joints there were billing shows like Burlesquer Lois De Fee's "Rumba A-peel." Muggsy Spanier, who looks like a waterfront Noel Coward, and Trombonist Miff Mole, who looks like a middle-aged dentist, were playing music that had a lot more drive to it than it had had at Nick's in the Village...
Most conspicuous absentees at Eddie Condon's opening were some of Condon's fellow Chicagoans: Trombonist Milfred ("Miff") Mole, Cornetist Francis Xavier ("Muggsy") Spanier, who play a half mile away, at Nick's in the Village-where Condon played until about two years ago. (Twelve blocks away, Manhattanites could hear the far more virile and exciting New Orleans Negro jazz of Cornetist Bunk Johnson-TIME, Nov. 5.) Some of Nick's parishioners were scattered among Condon's opening-night audience, lost among the celebrities and the Hoosiers. "You know, Hoosiers," explained Condon, himself the ninth...
...Lewis opened at the RKO Boston yesterday with George Brunies and Muggsy Spanier in the band. What some men will do for money!--Latest advice from NYC tells of Dorchester's Max Kaminsky, just out of the Navy, opening a new Village bistro, "The Pied Piper," Cless. Orchard, and Danny Alvin in the band
...reason is not Lewis' music per se. His band has at times had first-class hot-jazz players (Muggsy Spanier, Benny Goodman, Jimmy Dorsey, George Brunies*). But usually the musicians are purely a supporting cast to Lewis himself. He is a one-man synthesis of U.S. show business at its showiest. Under full steam, Ted Lewis embodies the Shakespearean ham, the minstrel strutter, the carnival drum major, the medicine barker, the vaudeville tearjerker, the circus buffoon, the ragtime sport-all among the most fondly regarded figures in U.S. life...