Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trouble digging up talented drummers, found that most of his sidemen (average age: 23) had a classically oriented training: "They kept giving me the blue-serge treatment. I had to work hard to get that rough-tweed effect." Language was a problem too; Brown's instructions to a sax man, for instance, were delivered to a trombonist, who translated them to a trumpeter, who again translated them for the confused saxophonist. The situation was further complicated by the fact that Brown's band was to play mostly new works, especially commissioned for the festival, e.g., John La Porta...
...smoke two packs of cigarettes or more a day have the biggest death rate in the age groups covered (30-to-80, but largely concentrated on 50-to-70). The rate: twice that for nonsmokers...
...Age of the Common Man more things are tedious than tragic. But the saga of Portia Parsley is a legitimate tragedy--one of the great wastes we think about over stale beer and dirty postcards...
This Angry Age. A strong but uneven picture, derived from The Sea Wall, a memorable novel about French pioneers in Indo-China; with Anthony Perkins and Jo Van Fleet (TIME, June...
Sweetness & Lightning. In Pensacola, Fla., when a teen-age boy grabbed the purse of Equillar Adams, 65, she lit out after him, was so close on his heels after three blocks that he threw down the purse to avoid capture...