Word: swing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Makeup of this issue is the job of Jay Odell who prepped for the job as swing man on the desk of the Philadelphia Inquirer. Political analyst of the Crimson today is Gilbert W. Stewart who comes from North Dakota via the Washington bureau of Newsweek where he was, strangely enough, a political analyst...
While the records of a representative in California may seem remote to the voter in Massachusetts, in practically every important measure appearing before the Seventy Ninth Congress, Democrats from California voted with Democrats from Massachusetts. With Southern Democrats maintaining a constant bloe to swing the balance right or left, Congressmen split along strict party lines on everything from the Tidelands Oil Bill to the proposal to establish a permanent Wood-Rankin Committee...
Never had Manhattan's tawdry 52nd Street, "Swing Alley," been so loud with such brassy bad taste. Eager visitors to the former Main Line of American jazz stood uncertainly before the cellar joints housed in lugubrious brownstones, read the screaming poster promises of the "terrific" stuff inside, but usually hurried on when they heard the noise coming out the door. There were a few familiar names-"Hot Lips" Page, Maxine Sullivan, Georg Brunis-but few fresh performances. The street was full of has-beens and never-wases. It took a tin-eared hepcat to stand it. But last week...
Jazz without Labels. For short, smiling Joe Mooney, 35, it was a sweet triumph. He had played piano in a dozen forgotten bands, arranged music for Fats Waller, Jane Froman, Jack Teagarden, Paul Whiteman. In 1935, he bet someone that an accordion could be made to swing, learned to play the thing and became accordionist in Whiteman's band. Then in 1943 an auto accident put him in a cast for 18 months, left him with a permanent limp. Last March he rounded up Clarinetist Andy Fitzgerald, Guitarist Jack Hotop and Bass Player Gate Frega, sold them...
Also on the Varsity docket is the revival of the annual Christmas vacation jaunt through the Western hinterlands. The team is slated to open against Western Reserve on Dec. 27 in Cleveland, swing through Indianapolis on the 30th to meet an as yet unannounced opponent, continue through Bradley Polytech in Pittsburgh two days later. The trip will be the first such journey since the war clamped down on team travel...