Word: armstrong
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...SINCLAIR ARMSTRONG Chairman...
...more than any other country in the world, and. exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually." In that criticism, he has not spared his own race, ranging from the failure of Negro novelists to capture in print "any of the joy of Louis Armstrong or the really bottomless, ironic and mocking sadness of Billie Holliday" to the viciousness of anti-Semitism in Harlem. As for the future of black-white relations in the U.S.: "One's only got to look back to see that, though we certainly have cause for shame, we have...
...Harvard-Delhi Project is a program under which College students will help to finance work in Indian villages by students at the University of Delhi. According to Project co-chairman John A. Armstrong '56, "The Project will not only help Indian Students to get out into their own villages to work on problems of literacy, health, and farming, but will also form a strong tie between students at Harvard and at Delhi...
Mack the Knife (Louis Armstrong combo; Columbia). An uptempo, updated version of Kurt Weill's wonderful old ragtime hit from The Threepenny Opera (1928). Satchmo plays a lilting chorus and growls some free variations on the fine Marc Blitzstein lyrics (1954). Then he hears a shouted "Take it, Satch," and the Armstrong trumpet takes it high...
Last week Club President Doyle was still trying to discover how Roberts' name got on the Deepdale invitation list. No one admits to knowing him. Doyle also asked that all winners return their profits so that the money could be donated to charity. All except Armstrong and Roberts have said they will comply. Entrepreneur Armstrong insists that to do so would be an admission of taking part in the conspiracy. What's more, he does not like the idea of Deepdale club telling him how much he should donate to charity. Saddened, Deepdale intends to keep dogging Roberts...