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...probably over-represented. As on Three or Four Shades of Blues, maverick Coryell shows considerable understanding of Mingus's music in a number of excellent solos. Bassists Eddie Gomez and George Mraz wisely shy away from the spotlight, the obvious comparison with Mingus being overwhelming. Trumpeter Jack Walrath and saxophonist George Coleman each step forth briefly but decisively, while musicians of the caliber of Pepper Adams, Slide Hampton, Jimmy Knepper and Konitz take part without ever really asserting themselves...
...Walrath to the Senate Commerce Com mittee: "This is not a task we would have asked you to give us, but I think we are qualified. We have the staff, the procedures for handling parallel matters; this is not foreign to our experience. We are prepared to give it the priority that is called for." But the ICC also has long had a reputation for painfully slow motion...
...afford to do so send yearly donations. A knitting school, a cafeteria for 75? lunches, a layette shop are popular socialite centres for eating and shopping for baby clothes. When news of The Cradle reached Hollywood, where most would-be mothers find little time for childbearing, Mrs. Walrath got her share of the business. Some applicants she turned down flat. But, usually reticent about names of her patrons, Mrs. Walrath is proud to admit that from The Cradle to Hollywood have gone Gracie Allen's Sandra Jean, Joe E. Brown's youngest child, Mary Elizabeth...
Like all other foster parents of Cradle babies, the Jolsons last week could rest assured that their son had normal expectancy to live. Mrs. Walrath permits no child to be adopted unless it is healthy and normal. Congenitally-diseased babies, babies with syphilitic tendencies, are sent to institutions soon as the customary Cradle stay-usually about five weeks- has elapsed. All parents are given the record of the real mother, and whatever information concerning the father the mother will supply. Mrs. Walrath has had great luck in wangling the truth out of them. She tries to match the children with...
That Cradle babies are well babies is not a matter of chance. In 1927 a nationwide epidemic of summer dysentery pushed the Cradle death rate up to over 12%. Twenty-seven infants died. Desperate, Mrs. Walrath was ready to quit. But she had reckoned without a great & famed Evanston friend...