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...Overgrown Bureaucracy. On a bigger front, New York's tough old trumpet-voiced John Taber (R.) proposed an amendment that sent shivers running up & down the spines of Washington's bureaucracy. Taber proposed that Congress cut 200,000 employees off Government payrolls; reduce travel allowances by 20% for civilians, by 5% for the military; reduce allotments for Government transportation by 10%, for communications by 10%, for printing by 10%, for contractual services (e.g., law work, special expertizing, etc.) by 10%. Taber estimated his amendment would save $600 million. Not to be outdone, Iowa's big Ben Jensen...
...cashing in on his gift of gab by putting it onto paper. With three Armstrong articles due for publication in the U.S., he was also pecking away at an autobiography. A sample of loose-jointed Armstrong prose (and his own weird punctuation), as free & easy as his New Orleans trumpet, tells how he gave a young Italian singer a boost on his European tour last year...
...evening of the concert I was warming up my chops getting ready to lay all that good fine jive like Muskrat Ramble to Lazy River and on down the line -which 'killed em..... I noticed that everything I'd run down on my trumpet -this kid would sing it and I mean he really would sing it..... So when I finished the tune I wheeled around to Ray and said -'Gate' during my concerts I want you to come out and sing Stormy Weather..... 'Oh Gawd' -that kid almost turned 'my colour...
...city's founders, pint-sized ("Boy, was he a shrimp!") Auguste Chouteau. As the children listened to the story of St. Louis' great fire of 1849, they clambered over the old fire engine, tried on the old derby-like helmets, shouted through the trumpet megaphones used by the fire vamps...
Manhattan recording studios last week were rocking to the loose-jointed two-beat tempo of slap bass and honkytonk piano, the syncopated blast of gutbucket trumpet, tailgate trombone and high-flying clarinet. The record industry, with a gleaming eye on a trend, was climbing back aboard the Dixieland bandwagon...