Word: 42nd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clarinet; Jim Hall, guitar; Ralph Pena, bass) strutted their stuff one star-studded night last week in the outdoor Wollman Theater in Manhattan's Central Park. Jimmy led the boys through a passel of his favorites: Pickin' 'Em Up and Layin' 'Em Down, 42nd Street, My Funny Valentine. The bass wove its low melodic line against the woodsy, paper-dry clarinet sound, the guitar attacked as solo rather than rhythm instrument. Sometimes Jimmy had five instruments (he played tenor and baritone sax and clarinet) shuttling in a complicated web of converging and diverging solo sounds...
...that it is not simply a camouflage for the ambitions of the big powers." In Germany, Cologne's Neue Rhein Zeitung conceded: "One must state with astonishment that the U.N. is stronger than it seemed." Even New York's xenophobic Daily News (which usually wishes that its 42nd Street neighbor would drop dead) credited Dag Hammarskjold's "diplomatic menagerie" with "quite an achievement...
...powerful running attack and excellent end play brought Yale the Ivy League championship this afternoon in the stadium as the Elis defeated Harvard for the 42nd time. Dean Loucks directed the Eli attack expertly, calling on Al Ward, Dennis McGill, and Steve Ackerman for hard rushing, while ends Vern Loucks and Paul Lopata excelled on offense and defense...
...Penn State and Army All-America football back who scored six touchdowns and six extra points in seven games against Navy, retired from the U.S. Air Force. He was assistant deputy chief of staff for operations of the Continental Air Command, and in World War II commanded the 42nd Bomb Group...
...after his 42nd birthday, Bao Dai found himself overwhelmingly repudiated by the people he had sometimes meant to serve, but only fitfully did, while his torn country lived through the intersecting agonies of poverty, war, colonialism and Communism. When he got the news of his repudiation in Paris last week, Bao Dai sent word through his Chef de Cabinet: "His Majesty adopts silence...