Word: accordions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jane (With a Song in My Heart) Froman and Accordionist Gypsy Markoff, both bound overseas to entertain troops. It was five years before Jane could walk again without crutches (she still wears an iron brace on one leg). By gritty determination Gypsy made her crippled left hand play an accordion again, never completely regained her former skill. So far, in compensation for physical injuries, each entertainer has collected from Pan Am a piddling $8,300-maximum allowable damages, under a 1929 treaty, for injuries suffered in international flights (unless the claimant proves willful misconduct). The House of Representatives voted last...
Individualistic Crew. Owner Mario Peironi provides accordion accompaniments, tends bar occasionally, takes time out to frisk departing bocce bowlers (who sometimes go west with the expensive balls). He also superintends his singers, who are an individualistic crew. Most independent of the lot: Tenor Armido Lembi, a 35-year-old worker in a chocolate factory, who draws bravos when he sings but refuses to show up more than once a week. Says exasperated Impresario Peironi: "God gave him a great gift, and he won't use it. I even offered him a job as bartender, just...
...rural stable brings him more than $1,000,000 a year, found Jimmy five years ago doing a rube comedy act with a fright wig, blacked-out teeth and rouged-in freckles at a rowdy Washington honkytonk, hired him at $64 a week to sing and play his piano, accordion and guitar for U.S. troops in the Caribbean. On his return Jimmy joined several of Gay's corn-fed broadcasting groups and made a howling hillbilly recording called Bumming Around ("I'm free as a breeze, I'll do as I please, just bummin' around") that...
...strength or skill. Anne Lord's pen and ink drawings of horses would be better done on white paper. Though the draughtsmanship is wiry and supple. Uninteresting and imprecise line, undermines the efforts of Judy Kuznets to create an effect with watercolor wash over ink. I found her Accordion Player and Mother and Child shapeless to my imagination. The idea, however, is a good one. Yoshi Shimizu's ink drawings are among his most thoughtful and expressive works...
...answer is the same for Joey as it has been for child prodigies from Mozart on: parental push. Joey's father, Frank Alfidi, a Yonkers, N.Y. accordion teacher, gave his son a specially built accordion when he was eleven months old. Within a few years the boy was playing kettledrums, the vibraphone, piano and, by some tall stretching, string bass. He went on to play in his school orchestra, where the going was rough. "They're not good enough for him," said Papa. Joey complained that his friends are not interested in his conducting. "There...