Word: armstrong
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...William Armstrong Sports Matinee (every afternoon except Sunday on WMEX) provides horse racing bookies with reliable results and track odds and eliminates the delay of waiting for the next day's newspaper
...Gene Krupa parked his successful 16-piece band, picked up a six-man crew in & around Greenwich Village and recorded his first oldtime jazz in more than ten years. Exchanging his tux for shirt sleeves and slacks, Drummer Krupa, who had his first taste of jazz from Louis Armstrong and the New Orleans Rhythm Kings back in the '20s, said with a big grin, "It's my first love. It's kicks...
...week, Ella, now a strapping 31, gave the fans a hearty sampling of sweet ballads with a Fitzgerald edge, a few bopped-up old favorites, her latest raid on Mother Goose (a scat version of Old Mother Hubbard), and a couple of friendly imitations of her old pals Louis Armstrong and Rose ("Chichi") Murphy. As always, her gently rasping voice, halfway between jungle wail and jukebox jangle, brought the house down...
Died. Charles A. Windolph, 98, early Congressional Medal of Honor winner, onetime cavalry private under Major General George Armstrong Custer in the Battle of Little Big Horn (1876) where he held an exposed outpost; at Lead, S.D. Promoted to sergeant on the battlefield, Windolph was in Troop H, part of two flanking detachments of the 7th Cavalry which were half destroyed while Custer and 264 troops under his direct command were annihilated...
Others were working towards much the same goal by somewhat different paths: ex-marine Cord Meyer Jr., whose United World Federalists was designed to transform the U.N. itself into a world government; Hamilton Fish Armstrong, editor of Foreign Affairs, who urged the "faithful members" of U.N. to bypass the Soviet veto and go on about their pressing business; Ely Culbertson, high priest of contract bridge, who wanted an international land, sea and air force (drawn principally from small nations) to prevent aggression...