Word: alto
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...good as his word. And he was so successful at building a Texas copy of the school he considers one of the best in the world that Stanford took particular notice. Last week Stanford paid Pitzer the ultimate compliment: it brought him to Palo Alto to succeed President I.E. Wallace Sterling, 62, who is retiring after 18 years...
...Check and Day-Dream. Three new songs composed just before his death make most admirable vehicles for the band: locomotive-paced The Intimacy of the Blues, which perfectly brings out its elegant, insinuating sound; Charpoy, a perking bounce; and Blood Count, a sinuous, sensitive ballad, with a Johnny Hodges alto solo, in the same vein as Passion Flower. Duke pays his respects with a pensive, if plush, rendition of Lotus Blossom, Strayhorn's own favorite...
DAVID MULROY East Palo Alto, Calif...
Meanwhile, student sit-ins were being held elsewhere at Cheyney State College, near Philadelphia, and Stanford University, in Palo Alto, California...
Last week, for example, the Weyerhaeuser Co. teamed up with the Palo Alto, Calif., home-building firm of Brown & Kauffmann to start an $18 million residential community on the San Francisco peninsula at Los Gatos. Weyerhaeuser will invest more than $3,000,000 in its first venture in home building, and split profits with Brown & Kauffmann. Most of the money is to be borrowed from Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. at a rate (71%) well below that which the home-building firm might itself have had to pay. Though small companies still dominate the housing business, the trend is running clearly...