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...commissaries, bowling and Hollywood movies at the service centers. Zonians go in for such back-home activities as the V.F.W., Lions Club and Boy Scouts. They have their own schools (including a junior college), country clubs and well-kept golf courses; 1,600 boats are registered at the yacht basin, and late-model cars are the rule, not the exception...
...Gate") Teagarden, 58, jazzman somewhere close to "Chicago," between Dixieland and swing, one of the great trombonists of all time, a lumbering Texan famed since the late 1920s for his staccato, yet melodic instrumental style and a sad, reedy singing voice that made classics of songs of the period (Basin Street Blues), new favorites of old standbys (The St. James Infirmary); of pneumonia and cirrhosis of the liver; in New Orleans...
...uninitiated, the Beaties are four shaggy-haired youths from Liverpool, England, whose "pudding basin" haircuts and unique Liverpuglian sound are causing more of a stir in Britain than Mandy Rice-Davies. The group has touched off riots and mass hysteris throughout the Isles. Even the Queen Mother digs...
...Soul. Only three great players have managed to avoid classification-Thelonious Monk because he is inimitable and Monkishly alone, Duke Ellington because he is a kind of president emeritus, and Count Basie because he so perfectly swings. Last week, in a wild and woolly engagement at Manhattan's Basin Street East, the Count's pigeonhole at last be came apparent: he's in the New Year...
Long Eclipse. The Count is more loved than admired by his immense audience, and at Basin Street East, his fans were strictly of the ilk that whistle, stamp their feet and shout, "Yeah, Count!" Basie was at his amiable best, beaming proudly at his players from the piano, even playing fun-and-games accompaniments to Singer Keely Smith...