Word: armstrong
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...finding a long-sought item, in this case a worn wax disc with a little music still audible if you listen for it. There is the assurance, never to be contradicted, that you yourself, endowed with the necessary technique, could improvise a jazz solo worthy of a Louis Armstrong. There is also the glow of superiority at being a member of a somewhat select, if ever-growing, minority to which names like Pee-Wee Russell and records like "Knockin' a Jug" mean something. And finally, there is the appreciation which an acquaintance with jazz, the unique invention of the Negro...
...later lectures the professor promised to discourse on the cakewalk, ragtime, black jazz, orchestral boogie-woogie, now & then with the collaboration of such great swingsters as Benny Goodman, Louis Armstrong, Artie Shaw, W. C. Handy...
...Civil War Gray's nephew by marriage, John Stephenson, turned the Plain Dealer into a roaring copperhead sheet. The small remains were expensively pieced together by red-bearded William Wirt Armstrong, who supported Andrew Johnson, fought the 14th and 15th Amendments, opposed woman suffrage on the grounds that it would turn them into "political swagerees, with a love of wine, whiskey and lager beer...
They Died With Their Boots On (Warner) is two hours and 17 minutes of wistful, little-eyed Errol Flynn as General George Armstrong Custer. That is a lot of Errol Flynn. With the Civil War and another Last Stand as backdrops for his heroics, the swashbuckler manages to be enormously brave, dashingly picturesque, occasionally silly, without losing his beatified placidity or sweating much...
Divinity School scholarships were given to Maurice W. Armstrong. Scituate Center; Richard Cummings, Cambridge; Howard F. Dunn, Windsor, Conn.; Lawrence R. Eyres, Gassville, N. H.; Ward J. Fellows, Lynnfield Center; John H. Gerstner Jr., Upper Darby, Pa.; Lewis L. Gilbert, Auburndale; John G. Gill, Grafton; Burton L. Goddard, Carlisle; Robert McQ. Grant, New York; Bernard C. Graves, Wakefield; William H. Gysan, Belmont; Perry E. Haines, West Medway; Wesley N. Haines, Boston; Glenn P. Holman, Neponset; Leonard W. Holmberg, Woonscocket, R. I.; Robert LaV. Jacobs, Belmont; Paul G. Kuntz, Philadelphia, Pa.; Albert A. Martin, Middleton; John A. Martin, Rochester; Kermit Schoonover...