Word: armstrongs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brown University combo known as the Brown Brunotes, led by visiting Anglican Priest Michael Fisher. When Father Beaumont performs it in his own church, he knows just the kind of combo he wants: a small, zippy dance band, perhaps with some of the gutty quality of a Louis Armstrong. Guy Lombardo, he feels, would be entirely too smooth...
...that of any other entrant. Robin Moore of Stanford, the world record-holder at 48.9, was injured in football this fall and wil not compete. Olympic 100-meter freestyler Dick Hanley of Michigan (49.8), Don Patterson (50.0) of Michigan State, and the Yale trio of Roger Anderson (50.1), Dave Armstrong (50.1), and Rex Aubrey (50.2) will offer the chief opposition...
...fifty, Dyer faces even toughter competition, for both Bob Keiter of Amherst, who beat him in the Easterns, and Fred Westphal of Wisconsin have equalled his best time of 22.2. Dave Armstrong of Yale (22.4), Bill Roth of North Carolina (22.5), and Rex Aubrey of Yale, the defending co-champion, are some of a host of strong contenders, eleven of whom have bettered 23 seconds this year...
...found dancing skill of Kwame Nkrumah, Prime Minister of the new British Commonwealth country of Ghana (TIME, March 18), was fully explained by Lucille Armstrong, wife of Trumpeter Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong. "Two weeks before Nkrumah danced with the Duchess of Kent, he couldn't do a step," said she. "He was worried about the inaugural ball and implored me to teach him to dance. So I tried him with a quick step first-Blueberry Hill. Each evening after dinner in his private sitting room we practiced for an hour with music played on records. Well, man, 48 hours before...
...Lord Privy Seal R. A. ("Rab") Butler to Red China's Marshal Nien Yung-cheng. Among especially invited U.S. Negroes: Dr. Ralph Bunche, Representative Adam Clayton Powell Jr., the Rev. Martin Luther King, A. Philip Randolph, president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, and Mrs. Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong...