Word: trumpeteers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...party in the Georgian room at the Statler Hotel Saturday night. The weather was lovely . . . The moon was beautiful . . . Feminine beauty radiated over the ball room and the music by Ruby Newman's band was in the groove. The party, especially enjoyed the smooth and hot licks on the trumpet by Murray. Griffin gliding into ecstasy on his clarinet kept everyone in a mellow mood...
Boston-born Teddy White first landed in Chungking on a $1,500 traveling scholarship right after he graduated summa cum laude from Harvard. There he had sold newspapers to keep himself in shirts, had tooted a trumpet to keep himself in spirits. More important, he had learned to speak Chinese-and as soon as he reached China he put this knowledge to use working for the Gissimo's government. John Hersey found him in Chungking in 1939, was so impressed by his news sense and his eagerness to get the facts first-hand that he signed...
...Bunk Johnson had not played. His story had followed a familiar pattern among U.S. Negro musicians. In the spacious days before World War I, Bunk used to "call his people home" with his own New Orleans boys-the Original Superior Band. Louis Armstrong, who followed Bunk around, carrying his trumpet, was only one of the many Negro trumpeters and cornetists (Tommy Ladnier, King Oliver, Freddie Keppard, Buddy Petit, Punch Miller) who learned from Bunk. And Bunk, who could play any tune in any key without stopping to think ("sharps and flats they never bothered me"), was the greatest of them...
...careful letters on an old typewriter. Says he: "You can sit down with a cup of coffee and a cigaret and be sure you won't go to sleep because that little bell keeps waking you up." Bunk kept insisting in his letters that if he had a trumpet and a good set of teeth he could play "as good as ever." Russell took up a collection and bought Bunk a set of store teeth. Today, before Bunk eats he removes his teeth from his mouth, carefully wraps them up "to keep them nice and clean...
...Nerves. Because it commands a widespread network of communications, A.P. has been able to trumpet its side of the anti-trust suit up & down the land. The war of nerves has been relentless. Hundreds of papers, either A.P. members or sympathetic, have plumped editorially for A.P. A.P.'s General Manager Kent Cooper last fall published a book (Barriers Down) in which he pictured A.P. as a ceaseless, unselfish fighter against monopoly. A.P. has itself published two large volumes containing hundreds of pro-A.P. editorials from A.P. papers...