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...other night at a Count Basic dance, a rather merry young lady in black skunk furs, proceeded to climb onto the band stand, push tenor man Bud Tate out of his chair, sit down and clap her hands while cooing benevolently upon the audience. Aside from the fact that the look on Bud's face was funny as hell, a very serious question was brought up. Just what is the average leader going to do about the jitterbug? Benny Goodman recently wrote a long article proving that the jitterbugs caused his band to play as loudly as it does because...
...drawing steady inspiration from gin and whiskey bottles. By the '305 he had moved on to lamp fuel, mentholated alcohol, petroleum, benzine, eau de cologne, ether, with opium and hashish on the side. In 1936 London's great Tate Gallery publicly and prematurely proclaimed him dead of drink. Utriilo was not dead and he was no longer drunk; he was still prodding his imagination (by praying instead of drinking) and painting pictures. In any case, admirers last week remembered incidents which went to show that his imagination needed no prodding, and that no postcard would stay a postcard...
...Advocate, some U. S. poets pay respectful respects to T. S. Eliot. Conrad Aiken: ". . . stinging and subtle . . ."; Archibald MacLeish: "No one has taught us more"; Allen Tate: "I have had only two Masters, and one of them is T. S. Eliot...
Donald Davidson, 45, is a Tennessean, professor of English at Tennessee's Vanderbilt University, a leading member of the Southern agrarians (Allen Tate, John Crowe Ransom, et al.). Like the rest of those resolute, nostalgic patriots, he believes that the thread of U. S. destiny was lost somewhere in the tangle of the Civil War. As citizens the agrarians think they can tie that thread into modern life, as poets they feel that the thread has gone for good. In Lee in the Mountains (Houghton Mifflin, $2), a book of short narrative poems, Davidson's heroes are dead...
...FATHERS - Allen Tate - Putnam...