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Nonetheless, le jazz hot made its invasion, in the custody of the "Chamber Music Society of Weston, Mass." It installed itself in the Common Room and toyed with the acoustics for a while, with occasional sojourns to the beer table for lubrication. There were nine, as I recall: Dr. John C. Wells, Jr., coronet; Dr. John Merrill, clarinet; Dr. Charles Palioca (a dentist), trombone; Dr. Thomas Peebles, drums; Richard Wigginton, bass; Raymond Boshco, piano; Guy Garland, banjo; and Bob Johnson and Doug Hayward, guitars. It was like outside the Metropole, only a little warmer...
...event was billed at Winthrop under the somewhat misleading title of "Doc Wells and Seven Swinging Surgeons." Actually, as noted, the group consisted of three doctors, a dentist, and five businessmen and professionals--all from Weston. They play mostly for themselves ("Our wives don't lot us away too much"), but appear in public on select occasions ("There has to be a little booze"). Since Condon's moved to the East Side and went respectable--they don't serve you under eighteen any more--this was your reviewer's first encounter with hot jazz. And it was refreshing...
...Personae," the word with which Ezra Pound titled his first book of poems, originally meant masks. Ezra Weston Loomis Pound, who is 75 this week, has worn many. There is Pound the poet, critic, scholar and esthetic perfectionist. There is Pound the economic crank, anti-Semite and Fascist apologist. There is Pound the expatriate bohemian, the discoverer, friend, advocate and ally of Eliot and Joyce, who got them into print. He begged, wheedled, scolded, scandalized others and scanted himself to secure bread-and-but ter money for them and for many another subsequently famed writer. In that role...
...calls himself, has spent so many years in voluntary exile-London, Paris, Rapallo-that it is easy to forget him as an American. His ancestors came over on the same boat as Roger Williams. Two hundred of them fought in the Revolutionary War, and the towns of Weston in Massachusetts and Connecticut are named after them. Ezra was born in Hailey, Idaho, in 1885, grew up in Wyncote, Pa., attended Hamilton College, and got an M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania. He had sound taste even then. At 18, he told his friend William Carlos Williams that Yeats...
...WESTON...