Word: waller
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...first man to pay public homage to the late, great jazz pianist, Thomas Wright ("Fats") Waller, who died last week (see p. 70) was just the man to do it. He was Fat's great friend and prime pianistic inspiration, James Price Johnson. Genial, blue-black Jimmie worked out on a Steinway at one of Guitarist Eddie Condon's rousing jazz concerts in Manhattan's Town Hall, played a medley of Fats Waller's tunes including Honeysuckle Rose, Clothesline Ballet, Ain't Misbehavin'. He played them the way Fats would have wanted them played...
...Jimmie' Johnson's place in jazz history does not depend on Fats Waller. Back in the early '205, when Jimmie made countless pianola rolls for the old Q.R.S. company, his powerful perforations were idolized by the most genuine, undiluted barrelhouse pianists and their admirers. Today he is regarded among them generally as the noblest professor of them...
Jimmie recalls endless gin, playing variations on Tea for Two for days on end, jamming at Harlem's Rhythm Club with youthful Duke Ellington, Art Tatum and Fats Waller, writing a bale of tunes for Broadway producers. He was one of the first jazzmen to go on the air. ("In those days we never got paid-just pats on the back and promises. . . .") By the end of the '203, Jimmie's health had more holes than a piano roll, and he was ready for what he calls his "stormy days...
Married. Margaret Lou Culbertson Scripps, widow of the late Publisher Robert Paine Scripps (son of company-heir of Scripps-Howard Founder Edward Wyllis Scripps); and William Waller Hawkins, portly, pince-nezed chairman of Scripps-Howard's board; in Minden...
Gloomy about the teacher shortage (TIME, March 29) was Columbia University's educational sociologist Willard W. Waller. For a generation after World War II, thought he, the U.S. might get even worse education than after World War I.-His facts: "More than 2,000 schools, mostly in rural areas, failed to open [last fall]. There was a shortage of at least 75,000 teachers in the nation at large . . . 2,000,000 children were receiving an education below the standards considered acceptable a year before. . . . Normal School enrollments have fallen off sharply, which is an indication that the shortage...