Word: alto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pianist Allen got the idea for the album when he heard Alto Saxophonist Julian ("Cannonball") Adderley insist on TV one evening that jazz criticism is "a joke." Allen scribbled several funky tunes (Hackensack Train, Fink's Mules, Too Fat Boogie) and recorded them as the work of Pianist-Composer Hammer. He tricked up some of the tracks by recording first the bass, then the upper register and gluing them together. Under a second assumed name - Ralph Goldman - he wrote some typically pretentious liner notes: "Like Peck Kelly of Texas and Joe Abernathy of New York, Hammer has become...
...Formerly Stanford University Hospital, but cut adrift when the university moved its medical school to the Palo Alto campus (TIME, Sept...
...collection of deep thinkers pondering truth in a cornfield last week near Palo Alto, Calif.? See EDUCATION, Time to Think...
...California beckons like Elysium. The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, initial-named the Casbah, has been called "a resort for academic hipsters, a dreamy pad for a bunch of non-celibate monks." Its stunning redwood-and-glass buildings, sprawled elegantly on a green hill above Palo Alto, make it look like a motel for Rolls-Royce owners. It comes close to being a boondoggle-and one of the world's most exciting havens for deep thinkers...
...another year while staff members try to find a charitable organization interested in keeping it open. After that, the hospital is on its own. Its 162 fulltime staffers and its 520 part-time volunteer clinicians (most of whom have sizable city practices) must either move or commute to Palo Alto or lose their Stanford affiliation. The upshot: when classes open at the university next week, 75% of the hospital's clinical staff will be new, and some doctors feel that the talent available in the suburbs is no match for what Stanford has left behind in San Francisco...