Word: alto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jebbar Subbagh in a blossom-strewn ceremony at the First Methodist Church in Palo Alto. In time a baby son was born, and the local minister christened him Paul. Except for the homesickness in Abdul's heart, all might have been well, but at last (in Helen's words), "Nothing would do but we had to go and visit his mother in Baghdad...
...memorize and play a piece we don't like the way a legit musician can," Dave said when he first heard Howard's plans. But he changed his mind when he heard Howard's fast-breaking, dissonant orchestral score. "It's O.K.," said Alto Saxman Paul Desmond. "Everything's out of tune...
...Smith Jr., on the eve of an abrupt retirement to private life,*refrained from specific criticism of the other services, nonetheless ruffled Air Force feathers by assigning to the Navy a far more important strategic-bombing role than the Air Force is willing to admit. ¶ In Palo Alto, Calif., Brigadier General Carl Hutton, boss of the Army's fledgling aviation service, argued that the Army must have its own greatly strengthened air arm, sneered at the idea that the Air Force has any "divine right to a monopoly on flying machines just because they fly," derided the theory...
Brother Matthew (ABC-Paramount). Some mighty earthy jazz by Dixielanders Eddie Condon & Co., featuring the fanciful but funky alto saxophone of Brother Matthew of the Servite Order (TIME, March 5). Until 1953 the star was noted as Boyce Brown of Chicago, a onetime intimate of legendary Jazzman Frank Teschemacher, himself so rarely recorded as to be a near legend...
...Palo Alto, Calif., police arrested Herman Dale Reid, 31, suspected of having a hand in nine embezzlement cases, as he stood staring admiringly at his own "Wanted" circular in the downtown post office...