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While occasionally on numbers like "Echoes of Harlem," the band begins to sound something like Ellington, the only outstanding thing about the band is Barnet himself. His tenor sax playing on the Lester Young (Count Basie) idea is usually good, although it occasionally sounds a little like a taxi-horn on a foggy night. His alto sax work is much better, and is probably the best imitation around of Ellingtonite Johnny Hodges. All in all, it would seem to me that the slogan. "Swing and sweat with Charlie Barnet" still holds...
...candor, but not quite the kind of thing they expected. The first 250 pages are dull as dishwater-a long-winded genealogy of Havelock Ellis's ancestors (healthy, middle-of-the-road sea captains, churchmen, businessmen, who "neither rise nor fall"), of his sheltered childhood, of his innocent young manhood as a schoolteacher in Australia, medical student in London, platonic lover of Olive Schreiner (The Story of an African Farm), who called him "my Soul's wifie." At that time, Ellis candidly confesses, he was 5' 10½" tall, weighed 150 Ibs., had a 23-in. mesocephalic...
...other ball players and rock fighters in Cincinnati when he was a boy, William Howard Taft was large but not lubberly. At Yale he worked hard, though he complained about it. As a young lawyer he was sound if seldom successful. As an Ohio Circuit Judge between 1892 and 1900 he was happier, and in one anti-trust decision soberly took issue with a more lenient Supreme Court. As president of the Philippine Commission, he replaced military rule with the rule of law, achieved one of those enormous successes that make diffident men more diffident. Time after time his enthusiastic...
CROOKED SHADOW-Kurt Steel-Little, Brown ($2). Private sleuth Henry Hyer falls foul of a Long Island Nazi gang who framed his young assistant for murder. The plot's intrigues are given a sombre speciousness by current events and nimble writing...
Blond, clean-cut young Yaleman Eugene Kingman, Philbrook's director, plans to encourage local art and architecture, Indian art. Conspicuous in the opening-night crowd were the feathers and buck-kin pants of Acee Blue Eagle, whose Buffalo Hunt was also on display. Absent were Negroes. One Thursday a month will be et aside as Jim Crow day at Philbrook...