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...capable of greater power and lyricism than all but a couple of his contemporaries. Giant Steps Atlantic 1311) and My Favorite Things (Atlantic 1361) are two landmarks of his as-yet incompleted evolution. One of these contemporaries would surely be Miles Davis under whom both Sonny and Trane have played. Without being able to pin it down, I think that Miles has added a totally new dimension, a new esthetic if you will, to improvising. Part of the novelty seems to reside in a cultivation of sound and of melody virtually unfettered by rigid adherence to chord changes, a sort...
While Ferebee's entourage-his head caddie, 18-year-old Art Cashetta (who carried clubs for 300 of the 600 holes), his personal physician, Dr. Charles B. Alexander (who fed him orange juice and water), his financial backer, rich Air Conditioner Reuben Trane (who had 3,000 autographed golf balls handed out en route advertising his business), his good-natured better, fat Fred Tuerk-all made merry on Broadway, Super Marathoner Ferebee went to bed, put a sign on his door: "Don't open until Christmas...
...Riding the air-conditioning boom, Trane Co. (not to be confused with valve-&-bathtub Crane Co.) reported first-half profits before taxes of $227,000, against...
...Trane Co. makes virtually every type of air-conditioning equipment except a heating unit, its specialty being the coils which it supplies to other air conditioners, including General Electric. Trane systems have been used on such major jobs as the New York Life Insurance Co. building in Manhattan, Wrigley Tower and Sears, Roebuck's building in Chicago, the House of Representatives office building and Supreme Court building in Washington...
...applied sciences that were going to bust the slump, air conditioning is still small potatoes. The industry's total sales last year were less than $60,000,000 compared with some $38,000,000 the year before. But the rate of growth in small airconditioning concerns like Trane has been impressive. In 1933 Trane's sales were a piffling $743,000. Two years later they were $1,700,000. For 1937 the company has set a quota of $5,300,000, which would be 75% better than...