Word: armstrong
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Among the hundreds of contemporary abstractionists showing at Venice, there are a handful of clever artists. Stuart Davis, for one, soups up the American pavilion with designs as piercing and brassy as a Louis Armstrong high note. Lording it over the British pavilion are Graham Sutherland's pictures of what look like livid innards strung up on brambles. Derived from Picasso's "Tomato Plant Period" of a decade ago, they are equally forceful and unpleasant...
...Calif., probably the only town in the U.S. where the decathlon is the most popular after-school pastime, Coach Dean is guilty of understatement. In Tulare (pronounced to Larry), Bob Mathias is rated, quite simply, as the greatest athlete in history-a sort of peerless combination of Jack Armstrong, Frank Merriwell and Gene Tunney. Says one admiring Tularean: "No matter who you are, you've got to like him if you've seen him the way we have. If you were a mother or father, Bob's the kind of guy you'd want...
Collectors' Note: Okeh has reissued some famous oldtimers: I'm Confessin' (Louis Armstrong); Willow Weep for Me (Cab Galloway); Wiggle Woogie (Count Basic); Gimme a Pigfoot (Bessie Smith...
...others: Hammering Henry Armstrong, who held the featherweight, lightweight and welterweight titles all in one year (1938) and Bob Fitzsimmons, who won the middleweight title in 1891, the heavyweight in 1897 and light-heavyweight...
Listen & Learn. When he was eleven, Napoleon ran away to New Orleans, began working out his own way of playing the trumpet ("I was playing before Louis Armstrong got out of the Waif's Home"). At 16 he formed his own Original Memphis Five, soon found himself proprietor of one of the most popular little outfits in the U.S. For a while, a youngster named Bix Beiderbecke, who was to die at 28 and become a jazz immortal, carried Phil's horn for him, listening and learning. Between 1917 and 1925 the Memphis Five made 3,011 records...