Word: sweete
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bride. Fanny Phelps died after bearing him five children (three died in childhood) ; and after due consideration, Grandfather Taft chose happy, loving Louise Torrey, who bore him four sons and a daughter. Second of these sons was William Howard Taft, Yale '78, who inherited his mother's sweet disposition and good nature. Father Taft, who became the only man in U. S. history to hold both the Presidency and the Supreme Court's Chief Justiceship, married "fascinating Nellie" Herron of Cincinnati. She was not only fascinating but drivingly ambitious...
...certainly is sweet music to report that these rumors are all wet, that Hines is still the only man playing jazz who keeps up really original ideas, and does a great many of them in dynamics of rhythm rather than in strict melody. He does the weirdest off-beat stuff you would want to hear--climbs way out on a limb, counts the clever, but still manages to get back in time for the next eight bar sequence. This is piano that isn't pretty, pre-calculated, or trite. It's some of the guttlost and best jazz I have...
...much for the sake of clean living as for better sculling." He drinks no liquor, tea or coffee, never smokes, does not play cards, slot machines, or the horses, swears only "when the occasion demands." The word necking makes him blush. He is mighty sweet on ice cream, and-though jealousy for his amateur standing has kept this a secret-eats Wheaties for breakfast...
Still puzzled by this eternal dispute are historically minded laymen, who for every mad genius can cite a sweet-tempered family man like Einstein or Darwin, a sunny soul like Spinoza, an Olympian spirit like Goethe. They can complain, and do, that psychiatrists have never made clear the difference, if any, between scientific and artistic talent. Nor have the doctors explained whether a neurotic is: 1) a long-fingered person of "artistic temperament"; 2) a crank who looks under the bed every night or constantly washes his hands; or 3) a robust grappler with convention...
...above mentioned "Honeysuckle" and a carbon copy of Rex Stewart's (trumpet) solo effort with Duke Ellington. Still another example of how Benny is forsaking nerve-racking power house for honest-to-goodness swing. "Memories of You" by the Sextet is equally good....Tommy Dorsey, having won the Downbeat Sweet poll, is beginning to play more good swing than he ever has before. "Easy Does It" is a worthy successor to the platter of "Stomp It Off" that Tommy did several months ago. An original by former Luncefordite Sy Oliver, it swings easily and tastefully....Jimmy Dorsey has always been...