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...observation in which I include administrators, faculty, and students. He loves this place and feels honored to work here. He is a legal immigrant from El Salvador, a quiet man, and not at all one who would conceivably pose a threat to the safety or even serenity of the band invited here to help undergraduates “reclaim the Yard...
...seems that the person making this intemperate request of him may not have been a member of the band, but rather one of the band’s “protectors.” I am delighted to say that Mr. Gonzalez’s solution to the problem was simply to request the man antagonizing him—whoever it was—to call the Harvard police if his presence posed such a terrible problem. And then he sat down and ate his burrito...
DUKE ELLINGTON NEVER NO LAMENT: THE BLANTON-WEBSTER BAND...
...wasalready a superb band, featuring such Ellington stalwarts as Johnny Hodges, Cootie Williams and Juan Tizol. But after bassist Jimmie Blanton and tenor-sax man Ben Webster signed on in 1939 and '40, it became the leader's best ever. The compelling evidence is on these three discs, on tracks like Cotton Tail, Ko-Ko, Jack the Bear and Harlem Air-Shaft. Individual glories abound, but the band's chief glory remains the nonpareil jazz composer whose instrument it was: the Duke himself...
...just good for workers; it's good for business. Gerald Wheeler, owner of Cabinet Door Shop, says two earlier power-saw accidents cost him $100,000 and two good employees, who suffered amputations. Seymour says he fixed himself up with "half a roll of toilet paper and a Band-Aid," leaving work that day with all his fingers, plus one really good story...