Word: armstrongs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...arrival, most of Azrou's 4,000 rug weavers, wood carvers and farmers were erudite enough to flavor their conversation with at least a few words of English-spoken with recognizable Tennessee drawls. And the strange rhythms of U.S. natives, as recorded in the waxings of Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington, are now familiar in a region where no American had ever lived until Hamlett came there six months...
...Armstrong Circle Theatre (CBS, 10-11 p.m.).* A medical whodunit in which New York public-health sleuths track an innocent dress buyer who carried in smallpox virus from Rio de Janeiro...
...JAMES ARMSTRONG...
Born in New York City, Gleason got hooked on jazz during his junior year in Chappaqua's Horace Greeley High School, when, during a siege of measles, he dialed in Armstrong, Hines and Henderson on his bedside radio. At Columbia University, Gleason was news editor for the Spectator, often nursed a beer all night long in the jazz joints on 52nd Street. With all that jazz, Gleason finally collapsed, quit college in his senior year. Cracks he: "I'm not copping a plea, but I did get a throat infection, and that cooled...
...Armstrong Circle Theater (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). The Better Business Bureau opens its files to a semi-documentary suggesting that the buying public is one big sucker...