Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...work that made it famous as a dance outfit and for excellent commercial. Catch Louis Armstrong's duet with PeeWee Hunt for the difference between someone that phrases and one that just sings . . . Also heard the Victor Herbert album, and while it isn't swing, it is swell melodic stuff--recorded perfectly and done in admirable taste--and is a relief from tunes like "Three Little Fishies"--for which Harvard may or may not be responsible, but which is guaranteed to drive almost any one crazy . . . For a change, and due to Cozy Cole's drumming, Lionel Hampden has turned...
...stuff to newspapers as well as to students of mass psychology, the phenomenon of erroneously attributed wildfire tales like last week's is fairly new stuff to radio. Re-examination of WMCA's letters revealed that no correspondent claimed to have heard the broadcast himself. Likeliest solution to the mystery lurked, not on the air waves, but in the files of the Amsterdam News in Harlem, whence thousands of Negroes go daily to gossipy jobs all over the metropolitan area. Not long ago the Amsterdam News reported a similar wraith operating in the neighborhood of Kansas City...
...rolling Harlemites have long chuckled over the way the usually prissy white folks' radio has been going to town for a month on Hold Tight. In Harlem Hold Tight's fishy lyrics are considered no ordinary clambake stuff, but a reasonable duplication of the queer lingo some Harlem bucks use in one form of sex perversion. Harlemites chuckled even more last week when, taking a hint from Broadway columnists, radiomen hastily demanded that Hold Tight's, lyrics be bowdlerized...
...commentary, The Londoners contains no boosts for the gas company but devotes all its footage to London, before and after L. C. C. days. Its staging of Dickens' day is more stagey than Hollywood's, but in its prying around modern London it uncovers much straight, unsugared stuff. It explores sagging flats, unkempt streets, records the pallor and pinch of slumdwellers' faces. The commentary: "Democracy means faith in the ordinary man and woman, in the decency of average human nature. Here then in London build the city of the free...
Pill, footballer Radvillas, and prize Sophomore George Johnson will probably be the three outer garden starters, but, all in all the Lions just haven't got the stuff to be a real contender...