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Probably the most interesting of the lot was Morning Conference (see cut), which won 38-year-old Gregorio Prestopino a $1,500 third prize. Its three construction workers, talking things over on a snowy day, had faces that might have intrigued a Pieter Breughel-or a William Steig...
...BECOME EXTINCT-Will Cuppy, with illustrations by William Steig -Farrar & Rinehart...
...Send Me Down," the latest glorification of the jazzman to appear, has the advantage of being written by a former musician, Henry Steig, so that its account of the ups and downs in the profession are based on experience. But to the layman he never reaches the point of making clear the ingredients, the essence, and the peculiarities of the jazz music around which his 400 pages are stacked. The rather naive contrast built up between brother Frank, who lets his jazz be diluted with doses of commercialism when he reaches the citadels of fame and fortune, and brother Pete...
...jazz fan, on the other had, "Send Me Down," though it makes interesting reading, says little about music he doesn't understand himself better than it's explained in the book. Stylistically, Steig simply lucks the gift of a James T. Farrell for hard hitting narrative to keep the story continually absorbing. Then the plot is neither subtle nor even convincing at times: the idea of a boy in a melancholy mood bursting out involuntarily with weird minor chords, from deep down inside him of course, seems rather a lame attempt to show that this lad had the old jazz...
...first novel by the brother of New Yorker Artist William Steig is the best story so far about hot jazz and the people who make it. Dorothy Baker's Young Man With a Horn showed tinny enthusiasm, a specious literary talent; Dale Curran's Piano in the 'Band had a warmer enthusiasm, less talent. But even Send Me Down leaves a long way to go. Its author has had some actual experience as a jazz musician, has knowledge and taste about the music, can do good reportage on the professional and erotic life of his colleagues. Beyond...