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...Evans and his partners (Saylor and three other Record men) brought out All-Negro Comics, a 48-page, 15? monthly, the first to be drawn by Negro artists and peopled entirely by Negro characters. Its star: "Ace Harlem," a Dick Tracy-like detective. The villains were a couple of zoot-suited, jive-talking Negro muggers, whose presence in anyone else's comics might have brought up complaints of racial "distortion." Since it was all in the family, Evans thought no Negro readers would mind...
Ernest (A Farewell to Arms) Hemingway got a Bronze Star for his war corresponding in Europe three years ago. Scene of the ceremony: the U.S. Embassy in Havana. Costume of the hero (who had hustled into town from his ranch): sandals, slacks, an outside-the-pants zoot shirt...
...Zoot Suits & Rams. Jash'n Istiklal commemorates the final withdrawal (in 1919) of British military power in Afghanistan. Though the Afghans are delightedly proud of their independence, Western influence was still obviously on the increase. Last week beady-eyed riflemen from the Hindu Kush and turbaned tribesmen from the rocky plains along the Oxus crowded the theater to watch Maria Montez hiss and writhe through Cobra Woman. At the café, Afghans tapped pointed shoes in time to a blatting jazz band while they guzzled imposing quantities of ice cream and soda pop. Kabul's young beaux wore...
Spiritually, the U.S. seemed to have added little but jazz, a love of fast cars, slang and zoot suits upon the Spanish, Malayan, Chinese, Mohammedan and native cultures already oppressing the passive and indolent Filipinos. Politically, Destiny had been more successful. The Philippine Government was a textbook democracy...
TIME, March 25, made some rather misleading statements regarding "Bebop" music, Harry ("The Hipster") Gibson, "Slim" Gaillard, and modern jazz in general. The impression you gave was that all lovers of hot jazz are zoot-suited marijuana-smoking characters who stay up till the wee hours of the morning saying: "Zoot! You're as mellow as a cello, 'gator, let's have some mellow-rooney jive...