Word: armstrong
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...piano in any jazz joint in town and earn himself $10 a night. He couldn't read music very well, but he could climb all over the piano with a solid, hard-riffing style that earned him a lot of respect from people like Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman and others...
Last week Wright got a jet engine of its own, also from Britain. For a price around "several millions," Wright bought the U.S. rights to the powerful new Sapphire engine of Britain's Armstrong Siddeley Motors...
...thrust of 7,200 Ibs., or 1,000 Ibs. more than Pratt & Whitney's improved Nene. Britain's Gloster Meteor 8 fighter, powered by two Sapphires, reportedly can climb from take-off to 40,000 ft. in four minutes. Wright also was licensed to build Armstrong Siddeley's best turboprop engines, the "Python," the "Mamba" and the "Double Mamba." In addition, the two companies agreed to "exchange knowledge" on research, technical information and products for seven years...
...Juan Vollenweider, and forward Stan Loeb making, the only goals. Brandeis kept the freshmen from scoring again until the fourth period, when John Beer and Joyce kicked in one apiece. The lineups: HARVARD BRANDEIS Anderson g Dollin Rogers rfb Newcombe Buttrick lfb Wisegall Willet rhb March Dean chb Schwartz Armstrong lhb Samuels Joyce rof Fieldman Beer rif Wolpit Rodriguez cf Helmirch Vollenweider lif Bolaffi Noble lof Gurion
...best jazz trumpeter this side of New York." Then they branched out. They went twice to Smith College (Gifford is carried away by the memory where 200 girls in sweat shirts and dungarees sat in a semicircle and shrieked for the real oldtimers like "Coal Cart Blues" (an Armstrong standby). And they found another faculty supporter in Roy Lamson, Jr. '29 clarinet-playing professor of Sociology at Williams...