Word: spivak
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...band; and since this is to be one of his first jobs, no really accurate information as to the band's performance can be obtained. However, this reviewer heard the rehearsals in New York and thought that it showed signs of being a really great organization. Charley Spivak, formerly Bob Crosby's ace trumpet man, Ernic Cacares, whose sax playing aroused so much comment in New York at Nick's, and Allan Reuss, formerly with Goodman (guitar) are all playing with the band. And Mr. Teagarden himself, known to the trade as "Big Gate," is going to lead the four...
...explain in the first issue (on a page with Hemingway's story about Italian battalions in Spain) that Ernest Hemingway was a contributor, not an editor. By last week Ken's direction had largely devolved on Messrs. Smart & Gingrich with the assistance of Messrs. Hemingway, Seldes, John Spivak (Europe Under the Terror), Raymond Gram Swing (Forerunner of American Fascism), Critic Burton Rascoe, Manuel Komroff, Sportswriter Herb Graffis...
Poland's tyrants, according to Spivak, are amiable, intelligent playboys, its people hopeless serfs. Asked what he most wanted, a Polish peasant subsisting on potatoes replied: "If I could have a little salt for my potatoes." Pressed for a serious answer, he stammered, "Well, if I could have a little sugar I could have sugar in my tea on Sundays." Told by Spivak that these were trifles, he replied with dignity, "Salt in potatoes is no trifle...
Czechoslovakia is a democracy but Spivak included a chapter on its terror because Czechoslovak peasants, like Poles, eat potatoes without salt, give up everything they have to tax collectors to pay for Czechoslovakia's huge Army...
...like the peasants' potatoes, must be taken with a little salt. Readers will be considerably baffled to know how this U. S. investigator, who speaks only English and German, managed to evoke such dangerous confidences from the most illiterate classes in Italy, Poland and Czechoslovakia through interpreters. Author Spivak is a shade too ready to forecast the collapse of tyrannies, to overestimate the potency of the rebellious spirit. His book is valuable as a document of a kind that rarely emerges from the censored murk of dictatorship...