Word: armstrong
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Editor Hamilton Fish Armstrong had packed the anniversary issue of his grave, grey Foreign Affairs with a roster of big names: Henry L. Stimson, Sumner Welles, Anthony Eden, the Earl of Halifax, Historian Arnold Toynbee, World Bank President John J. McCloy...
...voice. It was still brash and undisciplined, often nasally unmusical and handicapped by careless phrasing. But at her unpredictable best, Chippie handled the blues with the loving and instinctive expertness of her collectors' item records of the middle '20s, when she worked with Louis Armstrong, King Oliver, and Earl ("Father") Hines. She had quit singing in 1930 to bring up her four kids (later there were three more). When Jazz Pedant Rudi Blesh found her three months ago she was scraping trays in a Chicago cafeteria...
...Louis Armstrong had forsaken the ways of Mammon and come back to jazz. Shorn of his big (19-piece), brassy, ear-splitting commercial band (TIME, April 29, 1946), he was as happy as a five-year-old with his curls cut off. Billy Berg's neon & chromium Los Angeles jazz temple wasn't big enough to hold the faithful who thronged to welcome him back...
...Borroff was among the listeners that day. A longtime critic of such programs, he decided that the cliff-hang ending had gone quite far enough. Last week Borroff gave orders which may chip away dangerously at the foundations of all soap operas, as well as kid-chillers. Jack Armstrong and his running mate, Sky King, he ruled, need more time, less suspense. After Aug. 25 the shows will be heard on alternate days and stretched to a full half hour. Each day there will be a complete episode-and no more cliff-hangs...
Dashing, golden-haired George Armstrong Custer, a major general at 24, was a wild daredevil of a soldier and the greatest Indian fighter of his time-according to the history books. Schoolboys are told that the battle to the last man at the Little Big Horn on June 25, 1876 was one of the most heroic chapters in U.S. history...