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Maurice Richard Grosser learned to read Homer and hunt squirrel under the tutelage of the late William Robert ("Old Sawney") Webb, white-bearded, tobacco-chewing Confederate veteran, classicist and schoolmaster in Bell Buckle, Tenn. "Old Sawney's" star pupil, Grosser entered Harvard in 1920 with the highest-in-the-U. S. college entrance marks in mathematics and Greek. Of Art he was more innocent than the youngest dauber in a modern progressive school. In 1922, when he was a restless sophomore, a leering classmate urged him to go to an art class in South Boston, because there he might...
...dispositions with the mild distillates of the Dominion. When the Royal ship docked at Wolfe's Cove, the New York Herald Tribune's Edward Angly, the Times's Raymond Daniell and John MacCormac, the A. P.'s Frank H. King and U. P.'s Webb Miller appeared on the dock in morning coats and striped trousers. By the time the King and Queen reached Ottawa, even the photographers were wearing cutaways and high hats...
Died. Jacob Grant Hollenbeck, 72, assistant passenger traffic manager for the Missouri Pacific Railroad (he had retired 24 hrs. before his death) and father of frail, graceful Musicomedy Hoofer Clifton Webb; in St. Louis...
...coming weeks look very strong from the swing angle with Chick Webb now in residence at the Southland, Earl Hines due in there soon, Charley Barnet at the Raymor, various name bands in and out of Totem Pole and the Roseland State, and the Freshman Smoker's terrific array of talent Monday night...
...Chick is a deluding appelation for Mr. Webb. He is without doubt the most powerful drummer in the country. Vague resemblance to the Goodman brass section can be seen in his playing. Lately, however, he seems to have concentrated on backing the band, which is much better than the days when he used to cut loose now and then regardless of what else was going...