European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 28, 1958, Darmstadt, Hesse Popular Man on French radio by Don staff writer Sim copans in Paris French listeners could hardly text a foreign accent in the voice on the radio but you Are certain it is an american when you him announce the name of the jazz record he is about to play or when he the title of a spiritual or mentions the Singer of american Folk Sim disc music authority Arvi is heard several times each on the for the French National radio and to and has toured France several outlining the origins of american nit Only is he known in hut in Switzerland and other parts of where radio stations carry his shows produced in he has listeners on the refs overseas network in Africa and the West fan mail indicates Art extensive following behind the Iron curtain among listeners Able to tune in the French copans series feature All kinds of Amer popular music show Folk mimic and although he had ions been in the musical shows he now produces in Paris began by in Only a Good he says i never had a music lesson in my is an authority on records and a Wall of his Paris apartment is covered i full record from majored in Kinch Brown University and has a in Romance he studied eight years in Paris and was a professor at Columbia University when the entered world War he was asked to join the office of War information and arrived in Paris the Day the French capital was in around his 2d Mobile broadcasting unit established radio stations in liberated areas of Normandy after the landings at Omaha and Utah they also broadcast from the entering town after town liberated by Allied troops to advise and Orient the civilian sometimes we were in a town Only a half hour after the enemy had he copans remained with the own in Paris when the War the office was the forerunner to the information when the latter was organized he was named radio officer at the an added duty was to represent the voice of during these years he gained popularity among French radio audiences because the network carried Many of the voices american says was an in Stant Success in France during the postwar period because listeners were starved for this kind of it banned during the War Only no new discs had been published for five years and it took some time for record companies to get Back into copans show provided the Only entertainment of this in 1953 he left Usis to devote full time to the record working As an in dependent since 1954 he has been lecturing throughout some times by arrangement with usually presenting a program of record and description on the evolution of Ameri can in France he finds almost every Type of audience they Are eager to learn the origins of jazz and equally interested in the background of spirituals and the history of the As seen through Folk recently during a lecture tour organized by the Marseille office of the Usis the program attracted a crowd of at Marseilles opera teenagers and Young people constitute a Large part of such although interest extends far beyond jazz enthusiasts or the hot clubs which exist throughout in addition to his regular programs for the copans does numerous special both for the French radio and for radio free he is heard weekly on the abcs just jazz his por Tion is called an american in last year copans received the French legion of Honor for having furthered Cul Tural relations Between France and the Pup tent headers Are invited to submit their verse to the Pup tent poets edit and Apo the editor right to make minor changes and suggests that the authors retain of their submitted poems As manuscripts cannot be att tons should be typed and double spaced to facilitate the River the River runs As it always from High mountains Down to thei past Fields and Hills in restless with a Bend to pass each and it wears soil from the lands face where the but it brings life to the tall Corn in the Lowland the Rivers Road is an endless and time Seldom alters the except when rain pours from the and currents run then it spills on to wheat Fields and the Orchard and it roars Down to the Small town in the Valley the River yields its from Slick Salmon to Pearly to prompt Young boys to sneak from for the sporting boys and it gives Speed to the sailboats with the pilots and it sends rhymes to the Green Banks and a poets dreaming Leslie Basse he 316th air Goren on Bridge 4 each tweet vulnerable West West 4 aq84 9 94 532 qj6 North 63 akqj8 k9j7 Kio East 752 10763 none South 4 kj109 a v 064 the bidding West North last South pass 1 v pass 2 4 4 it pfc 5 pass pass pims opening Lead club Queen East obtained a clue from the opponent pc Odd my today which enabled Nim to execute an unusual play to defeat the con tract 14 the final contract was reason Able but we feel that norths jump raise in diamonds was Overly had he raised to just South would have shown his Spades and North could have tried three no which would have come Home easily in the absence of u Spade Lead West made the Normal opening Lead of the Queen of clubs against 5 diamonds and Declarer played Low from the Dummy hid Hast played re Lexly and simply signalled for a Continua Tion of the suit the contract would have been brought Home by who v Ould have ruffed the second Lead drawn Trumps and discarded three Spades on the Dummes heart East however ook time out for a bit of calculation it was reason a to assume thai Declarer had but one Ace for when he Learned in response to his Blackwood re Cai that North had Only one he put a to the from the appearance of the Trumps in Dummy it was also reasonable to assume that Declarer held the Ace of which would seem to locate the Ace of Spades with East further concluded that in All probability South had Only one for if he had two losing clubs he would hardly be in a position to Promise via Black Wood that a contract for 11 tricks would be Jafe that the defense could win Only one club East saw that to defeat the West would have to be found with the Queen of As Well As and he real that the tricks would have to be cashed promptly or not at All overtook the Queen of clubs with the Ace and shifted to a rude bringing Home three defense Trik before South could step out of the starting Gate Chicago Tribune the stars and stripes tic Stockless time the boo filled room was quiet and Cool in the afternoon a Small round clock sat tic Stockless on a shelf making synonymous the phrases timeless life and lifeless a buzzing Black Fly flew atop the still seeing me watch the Black thing flew to a Darker part of the leaving me with the Cool the several different sized books and a Complete unconcern with passing of Noonan Izmir the spirits willing there Are times when i gaze at a Magazine Page and sigh for a Glossy then the morning blows and the bed takes its hold and i feel my vocation is Here by the afternoon i am once More in shape on to let my thoughts but Down beats the rain at my wide window pane and the warmth of the fire casts its spell by eight i am rain and whimsically wearing dior and in throngs holding but by ten i am and a gone sleepy head and my services be bought supera the Netherlands message we who exorcise our pain in a tiny a one among a multitude with perhaps less Pulcher etude than a million singing do not do not care to be Brookes with poet no its not for singing these rough Hen gems we aim to please scholar de minds and critics but essentially to pry from the wounds of life the Hurt that in lesser Pervert and turn love life to death Rob us of our vital we feel them justified Al the to our if some meaning can be Given in their form to others driven the pressures of our if like us they have grown hard at times from lifes find our songs to be of Farewell to the for Ray and Ulrich the crowds have left old and the Din of workmen tearing All the 3jj buildings excitement the j5s worn As exposition fever at Home the visitor takes Stock of All Hes seen in buildings Large and Small r the Disney the and the flock of gaping people shoving through it disappointment slowly settles in t to join the weary feet and empty the eyes Are nerves an worn quite thin a dozen aspirins Only make it 1 the line was Modi atomism too a Steak from Argentina no the belgian Village Bat what a throng the most attractive sight empty f fairs Are things that must really Seef they and and leave in the and once there i place for me at Home within a soft cozy at of a merry m vagrant october Amber scorns the hollow of us clean from the limb ties startled Leaf As Bank Gamst sky Points the thief the wind which embraces leaves Urith sending them upward and chasing after with Rolloff Down Hills or the Street Oft never again Antt the snap quicker than under the Teeth of snicker j and never again Uriu such color flame til tousled october comes a Gam october
