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...Sounds from Sweden, Vol. I (Leonard Feather's Swingin' Swedes; Prestige LP). Some remarkably up-to-date jazz imported from Scandinavia by Jazz Expert Feather. Rain on the Roof and Moonlight Saving Time are rather stiff, but Swedish Butterfly and September Serenade are stylish bits of rhythm...
Further evidence of that new deal came later in the fall when Repeal went into effect in Cambridge. Students, liberated from the puritanical bonds of the Vol-stead Act, began showing up at meals in the Houses with bottles tucked under their arms. The matter was brought to Conant's attention and he immediately issued a statement: "I am ruling that no student may bring in any beverage of any sort whatever to the dining halls to be taken with his meals." This did not mean that Conant's regime was going to be a prohibitionist one. Less than...
...Beiderbecke Story (Columbia, 6 sides LP). Third of a series of historical anthologies, this set takes 36 recordings out of the collector's-item class, fixes Cornetist Beiderbecke's halo more firmly in place. Vol. I (Bix and His Gang) finds him at his freest, contains his definitive version of Jazz Me Blues; Vol. II (Bix and Tram) contains his most famous solos (Singin' the Blues, I'm Cornin' Virginia) and happy teamwork with Saxophonist Frank Trumbauer; Vol. Ill (Whiteman Days) has appealing solos by Bix and Bing Crosby, buried in a large dose...
...specific military promise it wanted. Two days later however, in a speech in New York, British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden beamed a crucial warning to the Communists. "It should be understood," he said, "that the intervention by force by Chinese Communists in Southeast Asia-even if they were called vol- unteers-would create a situation no less menacing than that which the United Nations met and faced in Korea. In any such event the United Nations should be equally solid to resist...
Winston Churchill likes to work in bed, but it is sometimes hard to believe that he ever sleeps in one. Mentally, at least, he seems to have spent every minute of World War II on his toes. In Closing the Ring (Vol. V of The Second World War, at least one more volume to come), there is the same insatiable appetite for knowing the whole score every minute that gives the continuing snap of excitement to the entire work. Subordinates with less than Churchillian lust for living hard in dangerous times could never be sure that the Prime Minister would...