Word: warrenton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Italian paper in New York, wrote obituaries and police news for a Washington paper, finally talked himself into a $25-a-week job writing "a spicy little column like I had once done back in Italy." One spicy little column in 1939 aroused three young members of the Warrenton, Va., horsy set, who abducted "Ghighi" Cassini from a country-club dance, tarred & feathered him on a lonely road. He took refuge in the Warrenton home of one Major Austin McDonnell. Next year, when he became a U.S. citizen, Cassini married the Major's daughter, "Bootsie...
Most famous jazz spot in pre-war Boston was the old Theatrical Club, corner of Warrenton and Tremont, where beginning in 1937 after-hour highballs were served to the accompaniment of Bobby Hackett's band. The "real" jazz school might claim that an instrumentation of two tenors, even though abetted by Brad Gowns' slide trombone and Hackett's horn, wasn't conducive to good music--but, then, the liquor wasn't too good, either...
Married. Walter P. Chrysler Jr., 35, ex-Navy lieutenant, wavy-haired heir to one-quarter of the Chrysler motor millions, lord of a horsy 1,000-acre Warrenton, Va. plantation with a 72-room manor house and 70 outbuildings; and tall, svelte Jean Esther Outland, 23, pretty blond gym teacher at Virginia's College of William and Mary; he for the second time, she for the first; in Norfolk...
...lover, whether V-12 or civilian, might as well resign himself right now. Boston just isn't the jazz hub of the universe. The best jazz that can be found a present is the series of Sunday afternoon jam sessions at the Ken, on the corner of Tremont and Warrenton Streets, just beyond the Hotel Bradford. Last Sunday the Ken featured Pete Brown and the Jones Brothers, a local trio with an overdoes of vibraharp, with Cecil Scott's house band in the background. The same group will probably be there next Sunday. It's not particularly exciting...
These next few weeks will find Boston the hottest in its history, musically speaking. For jazz-lovers who like their music pure and uncommercial, "Wild Bill" Davison blows a fabulous trumpet at the Ken, 58 Warrenton St., just beyond the Met Theater in downtown Boston. With him is a truly "All-Star" band, featuring such the jazz-men as Rod Cless, clarinet, James P. Johnson, piano, and Sandy Williams, trombone...