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Last year the band started off at the Savoy with the trumpet played by 20-year-old. Tufts graduate Paul Gibson, whom Gifford calls "the best jazz trumpeter this side of New York." Then they branched out. They went twice to Smith College (Gifford is carried away by the memory where 200 girls in sweat shirts and dungarees sat in a semicircle and shrieked for the real oldtimers like "Coal Cart Blues" (an Armstrong standby). And they found another faculty supporter in Roy Lamson, Jr. '29 clarinet-playing professor of Sociology at Williams...
Bandless and jobless, Mohammedanized Trumpet Player Dizzy Gillespie, high priest of polyphonic jazz, was forced to admit to Down Beat that bop was done for: "Everybody wants you to play what they call dance music. What they mean is that ticky-ticky-tick stuff...
...Jehovah's Witnesses are not pacifists," he shouted to the convention. "We are fighters, but using no carnal weapons . . . We merely sound the trumpet as the advance guards of the mighty heavenly hosts led by the Great Warrior, Jesus Christ. These legions of warring angels follow us with mighty weapons of warfare that will make the atomic bomb, the hydrogen bomb, and all other inventions of warfare by men look like the popgun of a child in comparison...
Broadway's trumpet-voiced Ethel Merman, who will play a party-throwing lady diplomat in a forthcoming musical (Call Me Madam), showed up an hour and 40 minutes late for a dinner engagement with party-throwing Perle Mesta, U.S. Minister to Luxembourg. Reported Ethel afterwards: "We wound up with our arms around each other, yak-yaking to beat the band. A real swell dame...
Last week Yukio Ozaki was once more showing gratitude toward the U.S. Wispy but indomitable, he had flown the Pacific to thank Americans for their postwar aid. Brandishing a tulip-shaped ear trumpet, he told New York reporters, "If you think Japan is [now] becoming a democracy, you are mistaken. Japan is getting worse...