Word: 20s
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...south through the night. But the P.W.s were somewhat disillusioned by their welcome at South Korean Army reception depots. Army officers told them they could join up (with no advance pay, no bonus, no leave), or they could return to civilian status and-if they were still in their 20s the draft. One young P.W. lieutenant was bitter. "I want to go to school," he said. "I've been in the Army eight years, almost four of them behind wire. It's unfair...
Once upon a time, the jazzman's capital was New Orleans; later came Chicago and Manhattan's 52nd Street. Today, the liveliest center of developing jazz is California, where a cluster of youngsters, still mostly in their 20s, are refining the frenzies of bop into something cooler, calmer and more coherent...
...front sat the dedicated fans of the new music, most of them also in their 20s They listened in hushed silence, with half-closed eyes, while the music tumbled along. Like the musicians, the crowd talks a new lingo. Instead of "dig that crazy riff," the new generality is "listen to those zsounds." Rather than admire strange chords, the cult discusses "playing a line." Everybody is aware of "healthy music" and "new conceptions...
Died. "Uncle Don" Carney (real name: Howard Rice), 68, famed radio pal of small fry from the late '20s to the mid-'40s, whose daily flow of cheery songs, birthday announcements and sugary advice (on such problems as nail biting, gulping, temper) earned him as much as $90,000 a year before blood-and-thunder adventure serials forced him to make his living as a disc jockey* (1947); of a heart ailment; in Miami...
Died. James Leo ("One-Eye") Connelly, 84, who devoted a lifetime to gate-crashing and became a sports-page legend during the '20s; in Zion, Ill. One eye blinded in a boyhood boxing accident, Connelly masqueraded as a sandwich vendor, iceman, or plumber's helper to outwit gatemen and gain free admission. Before he retired at 65, he boasted that during his career he had seen every Kentucky Derby, all but three heavyweight-championship bouts, countless football and baseball games, on principle had never paid for or accepted a ticket...