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...Jazz still "occupies a place entirely apart," but is given a complete chronicling from its African "origins through bop. In Grove IV, blues were kissed off with a See FOX TROT...
Life of the Party. In Chicago, Bank Robber Samuel Hochstetler confided to FBI agents that in six weeks he had spent $5,000 of the $31,000 loot for dancing lessons, had already mastered the fox trot, the waltz, the rumba, the mambo, the tango and the samba...
...Municipal Auditorium last week, the month's downbeat for uplift filled all 5,200 seats (at $1.25 to $1.60, children half price), and later the total was swelled by 1,300 standees. Things got under way when beefy Wally Fowler, a bushy-browed master of ceremonies from Possum Trot, Ga., asked everybody to "turn left, then turn right and shake hands; I want you to be good neighbors." Then he led the crowd in Love Lifted Me and Amazing Grace. After a short talk about the evils of materialism and intellectual confusion, he led another hymn, shouting between...
Life of the Party. In Chicago, Bank Robber Samuel Hochstetler confided to FBI agents that in six weeks he had spent $5,000 of the $31,000 loot for dancing lessons, had already mastered the fox trot, the waltz, the rhumba, the mambo, the tango and the samba...
...what was formerly known as a "fly cop" [a sharp cop], and "that's a fact, ma'am" ... As for the officers who write asking Webb if he is a genuine member of the police department-they must be constables from Nellie's Apron or Possum Trot. The outstanding characteristic that he portrays is police mediocrity. One day he is looking for a little boy pulling a red wagon and next he is working on an important case ... He doesn't personify the L.A.P.D.'s homicide detective, Le Roy Sanderson, who could, in court, recite...