The Russians, busy cleaning house on the political levels (see FOREIGN NEWS), found time to cock an ear at the subject of Chattanooga Choo Choo and related items of sub-basement culture. They were not amused. Moscow's mighty Izvestia, whose nods and scowls are promptly imitated by all right-thinking bureaucrats, scowled at "dzhaz."
Izvestia frowned particularly at a jazzy comrade named Eddy Rozner, who leads the Government-sponsored State Jazz Orchestra of White Russia, and is one of the hottest of the Soviet Union's not-so-hot bandsmen. His band is one of the six most popular in the U.S.S.R., ranks with Leonid Utesov and his...
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