Word: swing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Taking a Chance on Love (Helen Forrest; Capitol). A popular songbird of the swing era who starred with the Goodman, Shaw and James bands, Forrest, after a long time in the woods, swings back in fine condition. She sounds smoother and more confident; she still has plenty of life and the same sweetly nasal voice...
Weeks later, when Correspondent Serrell Hill man joined the Phillies on a Western swing, the big pitcher was still remembering the experience. "You ever pose for an artist?" he asked Hillman. ''Koerner had me holding still for two weeks. I came up with a sore back!" But he admitted that he and his Philly teammates finally became fascinated as his portrait emerged from the blobs of oil paint...
...Workin' on the Railroad." For Squire Harriman, the swing through the west was educational as well as profitable. Without valet, in towns where tailor shops were locked for the night, the governor used an old technique of traveling salesmen: to ease out the wrinkles, he hung his suit in hotel bathrooms, turned on the hot water, let the room fill with wrinkle-removing steam...
Typing Hyenas. Fadeyev was ordered aboard the great Communist peace bandwagon and sent off to Wroclaw to deliver a vodka-primed attack on the U.S. There he talked of the "disgusting filth" emanating from American culture and spoke of "trite films . . . reactionary waste paper such as TIME" and American swing, a "contemporary version of St. Vitus' dance ..." Said he, speaking of the work of Writers John Dos Passos, T. S. Eliot, Eugene O'Neill, André Malraux, Jean Paul Sartre: "If hyenas could type and jackals could use fountain pens, they would produce such works." Next year, attending...
Benny Goodman: The Golden Age of Swing (Victor). A 4 Ib. 6 oz. "limited edition" album that contains 60 re-releases of the master's records between 1935 and 1939. Musty, perhaps, but a must for swing fans...