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When Davision opened last summer, the biggest single defect in the band was the lack of a trombone. There's no such lack now, with Sandy Williams, ex-Chick Webb and Coleman Hawkins. Sandy was troubled with a bad lip last Tuesday night, but that didn't prevent him from proving that he is one of the most unappreciated trombonists...
Florid, white-thatched Chesley Webb Jurney has been a Washington character for 44 years, the Senate Sergeant at Arms for ten years. Sartorially immaculate, he paddles around the upper chamber, beams amiably at all. Amiability notwithstanding, Jurney was deep in trouble last week...
...blind are finding increasing opportunities in the war effort: >Blind, 23-year-old Byron H. Webb of Chicago was graduated from De Paul University last month, wanted to fight the Axis somehow. He was told of various relatively nonessential jobs he could do. Dissatisfied, he thought hard, sold himself to the Signal Corps. His job: teaching Signal Corps men to make emergency radio repairs in the dark. >Toledo Scale Co. has a new instrument, invented by blind Evelyn Watson of Buffalo, which permits blind people to weigh by ear such things as powder for fuses, mica for radio installations, buttons...
...Webb. Of the two brothers who founded Webb School, Sawney and John, Sawney became the better known, but John Rice does not think much of him. "All that the founder of a new school needed [in the post-Civil War South]," he says, "was a little.learning and a lot of physical strength. Sawney . . . had both." A tough man, he sometimes came to class with a scratch on his hand and "allowed it to bleed unnoticed as the boys sat in awe at the brave show...
...quiet Brother John ("Old Jack") Webb was the greatest teacher Dr. Rice ever met. Webb had a wisdom bump on his forehead the size of half a walnut, used to sit talking to himself and trimming his grey beard with pocket scissors. He taught Greek, English, history, math, everything -sitting in a split-bottom chair and gently posing riddles to his pupils. Says Dr. Rice: "More Rhodes Scholars came from Webb School than from any other in the world...