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...tuxedo, he first stepped briskly into the spotlight and bared his wisdom teeth. Then he skittered into a fast, tricky arrangement of China Boy, letting a small smile play on his face, as if to cue the audience to the right light spirit. In Bewitched, he swayed like a stalk of wheat, closing his eyes and opening his mouth to cue in deep ecstasy. From there he went to Duke Ellington's hot, blaring Caravan. Then he took off his tie, loosened his collar, and launched into a friendly little story of his life. His applauding fans seemed...
...Educated men make better criminals," said Camden police chief Dzubyzynskovich. Nevertheless, there will be no Crime here tomorrow. It will stalk the streets again Saturday...
...syncopated cakewalking craze called ragtime was born just before the turn of the 20th Century and died in the blaze of jazz with World War I. To most jazz fans of today, it sounds like something still on the stalk. To bearded Jazz Pedant Rudi (Shining Trumpets) Blesh and Harriet Janis, it is "music of enduring worth, revolutionary in concept and development." In a rambling, diffuse, but "true story of an American music" published last week under the title They All Played Ragtime (Knopf; $4), Co-Authors Blesh and Janis lovingly tell the tale of "a song that came from...
...lobby-sized green-and-gold Hollywood office last week, a wiry, high-domed man gnawed a massive cigar, paced briskly back & forth, and spewed memoranda in a loud Midwestern twang. Occasionally, hypnotized by his own train of thought, he ducked briefly into an open anteroom behind his desk, to stalk an idea among the stuffed heads of a water hog and an antelope, the skins of a lion and a jaguar, the sawed-off feet of an elephant and a rhino. Working in relay, three stenographers dashed into the huge office to scribble notes, dashed out again to rush...
...Window. Killers stalk a twelve-year-old witness (Bobby Driscoll) through a jungle of Manhattan tenements (TIME...