Word: baldwin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Baldwin, Giovanni's Room...
...Baldwin Another Country...
Midst laurels stood: ex-Astronaut John Glenn, 42, named winner of the $5,000 George Washington Award, highest honor of the Valley Forge Freedoms Foundation, "for inspiring all Americans to actively espouse resolute, responsible and reverent patriotism"; James Baldwin, Truman Capote, Ralph Ellison, Hans Hofmann, Louis Kahn, Bernard Malamud and John Updike among the 14 architects, painters and writers named to The National Institute of Arts and Letters; former New York Republican Governor Thomas Dewey, 61, in whose honor the 559-mile New York State Thruway will now be known as Dewey Thruway...
...much luck with even the Monk tunes that have become part of the standard jazz repertory. Monk himself plays with deliberate incaution, attacking the piano as if it were a carillon's keyboard or a finely tuned set of 88 drums. The array of sounds he divines from his Baldwin grand are beyond the reach of academic pianists; he caresses a note with the tremble of a bejeweled finger, then stomps it into its grave with a crash of elbow and forearm aimed with astonishing accuracy at a chromatic tone cluster an octave long...
News Front was started in 1957 by Baldwin H. Ward, 51, a onetime advertising salesman, and nearly died at birth. Advertising, News Front's sole source of revenue, fell to three to five pages an issue during the recession of 1957-58. All told, says Ward, he dropped $400,000 before nudging News Front barely into the black last fall...