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When young (27) British Pianist George Shearing went job-hunting two years ago on Manhattan's jazz-drenched 52nd Street, he had some impressive clippings to show. For six years he had been voted Britain's No. 1 jazz pianist. Like another successful British-born pianist, Alec Templeton, George had been sightless from birth. But at six he had begun music lessons at London's Linden Lodge School for the Blind, kept at the classics until he was 17, when he decided he could make his living at jazz...
...term of service in this House, I am convinced no one can learn the rules of procedure for this House in any New York nightclub. I am also convinced . . . that no one can solve any of these great social and legislative problems which confront us through nocturnal meditations on 52nd Street. We can solve them only by staying on the job right here...
...Manhattan's Eighth Avenue the waiter at Andy Murphy's Bar hauled out his finest Scotches and liqueurs; a nearby news vendor noticed a sudden flurry in the demand for such publications as Rider & Driver and Town & Country. From 48th to 52nd Streets, prizefight and hockey fans were in temporary retreat before the advancing wave of high society which was bravely turned out in sables and silk hats, diamonds and décolletages. The 61st annual National Horse Show was on in Madison Square Garden...
Rene Peroy and 11 varsity fencers took a train to New York yesterday afternoon to enter the Intercollegiate Fencing Association meet at City College. The 52nd annual IFA championships will be held today and tomorrow...
Explosions in a Cellar. For four weeks, patrons of New York's Paramount Theater have been pinned against its back wall by Stan Kenton's klaxon-loud "progressive" blasts. Dizzy Gillespie, the high cockalorum of bop, was getting top billing at the rival Strand Theater. At 52nd and Broadway, the intersection of commercial acumen and "art" in popular music, the Clique Club opened its doors and let the mob in. Buddy Rich, a Tommy Dorsey alumnus and bop fellow traveler, shot spectacular explosions from his drums, and a velvet-skinned Negro named Sarah Vaughan squeezed her toothpaste-smooth...