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...huge open stretches of water. Overnight, new ice about 10 inches thick formed over the open water. "I made a dash over the new ice," he wrote, "and in about 2½ hours I had made it across to solid ice again. I felt weak with relief." On the 52nd day, severe winds again forced him to stop...
Footnote: baseball statisticians have announced this is the 52nd spring in the past 77 with recorded rabbit-ball accusations. That's an RB average...
...Garner taught himself to play the piano when he was a child, but he never learned to read or write music. The musicians' union in his native Pittsburgh refused him membership in the 1940s because of this illiteracy, so Garner journeyed to New York City's famed 52nd Street to play in its jazz clubs. He eventually filled concert halls round the world and sold record albums by the millions...
Some will be tempted by well-known names like "21" (52nd St. between Fifth Ave. and Avenue of the Americas), where the captain may greet all but nationally known politicians with a fastidious shudder and escort them to Transalpine Gaul. The food is expensive and sometimes worth it. Yet another costly place, Lafayette, is notoriously snotty. In the same see-and-be-seen class, La Grenouille and La Côte Basque offer wonderful food-it is all terrifically expensive-but without the same hauteur. Elaine's (Second Ave. at 88th St.), an Upper East Side Italian restaurant...
...with Ben Webster's band. Soon he was playing with such performers as Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker. Finally he established himself as a soloist in Manhattan's plush East Side nighteries as well as clubs on the bop frontier of "The Street" (West 52nd Street...