Word: armstrong
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...well remembers the old wave. He had learned his broad, lazy, middle-register style as a scrawny kid, sitting on the curb outside Chicago's Pekin Cafe, listening chin-in-hand to the stream of notes pouring from the golden horns of Joe ("King") Oliver and Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong. He got his first job at 14, blew his head off from 8:30 at night to 4:30 in the morning for $25 a week...
Minor sports numerals--1954--to Geroge H. Anderson, Wellesley Hills; Richard W. Armstrong, Philadelphia; John W. Beer, New York City; Henry P. Briggs, Jr., Wellesely Hills; Griffith M. Buttrick, Bryn Mawr, Pa.; Robert D. Carroll, West Newark, N. J.; Robert H. Dean, Wellesley Hills; Hichard D. Elwell, Cedarhurst, Pa.; Todd Goodwin, Rochester, N. Y.; George J. Hill 3rd, Brookline; Edmund Jacobson, Jr., Chicago; Stephen J. Joyve, Hillsdale, N. J.; Stanley R. Loeb, Forest Hills, N. Y.; Walter M. H. Noble, San Francisco; Charles A. Platt 2nd New York City; Kurt Pollak, Boston; Juan Mario Rodriquez, Vegots, Colombia; David...
Juan Vollenweider and Dick Armstrong, unable to play last week against Medford High because of hour exams, will be included in the lineup this afternoon. Steve Joyce, who injured his right arm early in the season, played last Friday and will participate today...
...Yardlings will play without the services of right wing Steve Joyce, the team's high scorer, who sprained his arm yesterday in practice, and hour exams will sideline first string left inside Juan Vollenweider and key substitutes halfback Dick Armstrong and forward Kurt Pollak...
Last week, the talented kid had outgrown pure piano and was as big as they come. Well-married, he had graduated from a West Side hotel to the East Side's expensive River House. Convinced by his new personal manager, Ernie Anderson (who is also Louis Armstrong's press-agent), that he could be a "stellar nightclub attraction," Joe had "gone visual": even though he stutters slightly, he was booked for a 22-week television show...