Word: armstrongs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Break, Break, Break. In Los Angeles, Lillian C. Armstrong, 45, won a divorce from retired Petty Officer Joseph S. Armstrong, 48, after she testified: "He broke my arm, then broke his promise never to hurt me again, by breaking my ankle...
Everybody was on hand-Count Basie and Louis Armstrong, Pee Wee Russell, Dave Brubeck, Woody Herman, Roy Eldridge, Gerry Mulligan, the Modern Jazz Quartet, and plenty of others as "far out" as mortal men can get. Tabulating receipts at week's end, Impresario George Wein grinned from ear to ear. Not only would the festival be continued next year, he predicted, but it might well spread to Europe...
Like Louis Armstrong. The facts are somewhat different. The New York City medical examiner's record shows that he died of acute and chronic alcoholism, complicated by pneumonia. An attending physician called it "alcoholic insult to the brain." When Thomas arrived...
...heard myself say instead: 'You sound like Louis Armstrong.' " That afternoon a girl assistant from the Poetry Center went to visit Thomas, who was in bad shape...
...Star Parade of Bands (Sat. 9 p.m., NBC). Featuring Louis Armstrong and his Jazz All-Stars...