Word: altos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...swing singer traced in white tempera on the vine-colored wall which goes around the Savoy. He had a bald, top-shaped head ornamented with rimless glasses. This combined with the soft-spoken, non-alcoholized manner of speaking to which he kept doggedly despite the competition of a vociferous alto saxophone gave him the air of a dignified old schoolmaster...
...once jumping Ken Club is now indistinguishable from a thousand and one other marginal niteries. Best bet out of a poor field is the Club Savoy near the corner of Massachusetts and Columbus Avenues. Here a former Hampton sideman, Earl Bostie, manipulated the keys of his alto in an exceptionally adept but rather confusing manner. The member of his unit, a remarkably happy looking and youthful bunch compared with most jaded jazzmen, were largely recruited from Benny Carter's and Lionel Hampton's outfits some months ago in New York. They have recorded several items on the Gotham label none...
...Palo Alto, Calif...
After unsuccessfully badgering three California radio stations for an opportunity to air his atheism, a retired Palo Alto court reporter named Robert Harold Scott had petitioned the FCC to revoke the stations' licenses. For 16 months the FCC juggled this hot potato. Finally, it denied Scott's petition, but said in the course of a 2,500-word decision: "Freedom of religious belief necessarily carries with if freedom to disbelieve, and freedom of speech means freedom to express disbeliefs as well as beliefs...
Berkshire Festival (Sat. 9:30 p.m., ABC). Serge Koussevitzky conducting the Boston Symphony in Brahms's Alto Rhapsody and First Symphony...