Word: trumpeteers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: Shocked at first that you should run the degenerate face of Trumpet Blower Goebbels on your cover, which I regard as a place of honor, I was going to raise a bit of hell with you. But recalling that you ran Al Capone inthe same space some time ago I saw the fitness of things and congratulate you. After all Germany is in the hands of gangsters right now and Goebbels is their blaring brass. OSCAR LEONARD Ridgefield, Conn. To Subscriber Leonard, praise for able association of ideas...
...often at 3 a. m. after his theatre and night-club engagements, which gross as much as $250,000 a year. Ellington will sit at the piano, play a theme over, try a dozen different variations. Spidery Freddy Jenkins may see an ideal spot for a hot double-quick trumpet solo. Big William Brand may be seized with a desire to slap his double-bass, almost steal the percussion away from Drummer Sonny Greer. Duke Ellington lets all his players have their say but listens particularly to the shrewd advice of pale Cuban Juan Tizol, his valve trombonist...
...nowing him for choosing so buried a biographical subject as Henry Morton Stanley. Author Wassermann retorted: "Stanley's triumphs were gained when I was an adolescent; the whole world was talking of him then; he was the hero of the lads of my generation; his name was a trumpet-call; his mere existence stirred us as a child is stirred by a fairy-tale." Able Novelist Wassermann, better at spinning new fairytales than at retelling old ones, fails to bring to life the hero of his adolescence, but his book will serve to remind the world of many...
...essay signed "A Student" apparently had been penned by one of the young editors. Excerpts: "Sounding trumpet-calls to youth is a sorry and futile gesture. . . . With the time ripe as it hasn't been in 150 years for youth really to start something, to organize and make its influence felt, nothing will happen...
...believe anything; they were called upon to surrender all their beliefs and unite in a cause for which many may have had little personal feeling. That they were able to submerge their individual beliefs and their personal emotions, and ride forth into obscurity and oblivion when the trumpet blew, should win the profoundest reverence of those of us to whom a more fortunate world allows the indulgence of individuality. Each generation establishes its own problems and its own duties. War was their problem; it was too late to undeclare it; no duty was left them but the answer...