Word: armstrong
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sizzling swing concert in Britain 23 years ago, Trumpeter Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong recalls, he interrupted himself to roll his eyes toward a royal box and rasp: "This one's for you. Rex!" Rex, better known as King George V, was jolted but amused, despite the protocol that bars entertainers from referring to royalty in the audience-let alone addressing them directly. Last week, cavalier as ever about protocol, Satchmo did it again. Beaming at a $3.50 orchestra seat in London's cavernous Empress Hall, Armstrong growled: "Now we are going to jump one for one of our special...
...London, where he made his first success outside the U.S. 23 years ago, Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong, trim, happy and 55, returned with his New Orleans-style trumpet. Louis had not been back since 1932, mostly because England and the U.S. mutually refused to admit foreign bands (TIME, March 26). This time he was welcomed on an exchange agreement. happily took his All-Stars into cavernous (capacity: 8,000) Empress Hall to play two shows a night for ten nights. The band was seated on a slowly revolving stage in the center of the arena, and for a full hour...
Last week, as some 300 Biow employees scrambled to find new jobs, other agencies began scrambling for his remaining accounts. Among them: Armstrong Rubber Co., Benrus Watch Co. and Hudson Pulp & Paper Corp., attractive prizes...
...Devere P. Armstrong will replace Col. Trevor N. Dupuy as professor of Military Science and Tactics, the University and the Department of the Army concurrently announced. Armstrong, who will assume his duties here in mid-August, is now a professor at the Army War College, Carlisle Barracks, Penn...
...write a note. While growing up in The Hague, Pia heard a lot of jazz. "I don't know why," she says, "but I always liked that jazz rhythm." At eight, she sat at the family piano and syncopated familiar waltzes and minuets. From recordings of Louis Armstrong. Benny Goodman, Count Basic and other U.S. masters, she learned how to play around a melody, but when she went to study music-reading and correct technique-under the director of a Dutch conservatory of music, Pia could learn nothing. After three lessons the director told Pia. "What you do with...