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...husky nightclub handyman shoved the Steinway out to the center of the floor. The lights went down; over a shattering fanfare, a voice roared out the name that in the past month has become the talk of Manhattan's barfly set. Nellie Lutcher, a buxom 5 ft. 9 in a long white gown, swept...
Last week a pent-up man eased his big frame into a desk chair in a plainly furnished 16th-floor ofnce in Manhattan's Steinway Building. The man was Dr. Artur Rodzinski, conductor of New York's renowned Philharmonic-Symphony. His small eyes, almost concealed behind thick glasses, took in his audience: seven tense members of the Philharmonic's executive committee...
...public homage to the late, great jazz pianist, Thomas Wright ("Fats") Waller, who died last week (see p. 70) was just the man to do it. He was Fat's great friend and prime pianistic inspiration, James Price Johnson. Genial, blue-black Jimmie worked out on a Steinway at one of Guitarist Eddie Condon's rousing jazz concerts in Manhattan's Town Hall, played a medley of Fats Waller's tunes including Honeysuckle Rose, Clothesline Ballet, Ain't Misbehavin'. He played them the way Fats would have wanted them played...
...weather handkerchief, he is one of the most infectious men alive. With his wife Anita and their two musically gifted sons, Maurice, 15, and Ronald, 14, he lives in an eight-room English brick house in St. Albans, L.I. The house has a Hammond organ, a size B Steinway grand and an automatic phonograph with 1,500 records. Next to Lincoln and F.D.R., Fats considers Johann Sebastian Bach the greatest man in history...
Said one woman firmly: "I want a Steinway or a mahogany...