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...another disc by the amazingly little Dixleland gruop Muggay Spanier gathered around him. Besides good solos and the drive that all the records of this series have, the reverse face. "At Sundown" has the ost sudden shift this reviewer has ever heard from Dixleland (two-four) to four-four tempo--it's worth hearing...
More Goodman repressings: This time "You Know" by the Trio. First good clip tempo with "Flash" Krupa showing the folks back home he can play. Second side much better with ideas, swing, and Today Wilson piano galore . . . Freddy Slack claims that he'd arranged "Rhumboogie" and that the Bradley band was playing it long before the Andrews Sisters did it. At any rate their recording of it is a good one . . . "I've Got Rhythm" by Horace Henderson is marked "Special Version"--we like the original better. "Shuffin' Joe" on the back...
Behind the break-through tanks came assault tanks of six to ten tons, carrying light cannon and machine guns firing through ports guarded by revolving steel discs synchronized to the guns' tempo, each manned by one officer or non-com and one private. Of these, five made a squadron, three squadrons a company (plus the unit leader's car, radio car and reserve echelon), three companies a battalion, three battalions to a 135-tank regiment, plus reserves. Two regiments of breakthrough and two of assault tanks made a 400-tank armored division...
...patient voices droned on about the moribund League of Nations, international trade, U. S. responsibility. As the tempo quickened, and bombers roared over Ethiopia, Spain, China...
...meeting, according to the executive committee of the H.S.U., is meant to be a "ringing demonstration for peace," necessitated by the "steadily rising tempo of interventionist drum-beating...