Word: bebop
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Carl Berendsen. Pakistan's Zafrullah Khan once talked for two days, and set a U.N. record. Britain's Selwyn Lloyd, listening to the same interminable speech by Soviet, Polish, Czech, Ukrainian and Byelo Russian delegates, remarked in Oxonian tones: "If I may lapse into the idiom of bebop, just dig that cracked record." Sometimes U.N. humor has been less intentional, as when Warren Austin advised the Arabs and the Jews to "settle this problem in a true Christian spirit...
...composed by Steve Allen. The leading man: Steve Allen. Allen admits to even greater versatility: "I can play the tuba, make up songs from any four notes struck at random, and do a lot of stupid little things like a tap dance with my fingernails." In addition, Allen records bebop fairy tales, is writing a novel ("It's about the crackup of a marriage"), is working on a critical analysis of his fellow TV comics ranging from Milton Berle to Red Buttons, and is doing the words and music for a proposed Broadway musical. In his spare time...
...friends-a good many of them bebop-talking actors, waitresses and artists-Marlon Brando, 29, is "the most," a "cool cat" off stage or on. If he has a reputation for being a "character," it is only because he dislikes conformity, either in his professional or private life...
...Ellington's band; she for the fourth time ("All this is just crazy but oh my, we're happy"), he for the first; over the threats of Bellson Sr., owner of a music store in Moline, Ill.; in London's Caxton Hall registry, while hundreds of bebop fans waited outside...
Lawyers for Bebop Trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie filed suit in federal court in Rochester, N.Y. against a motorist who "wantonly, recklessly and negligently" ran Dizzy down while he was bicycling in nearby Geneva last August. Dizzy's injuries are responsible, said his lawyer, for the fact that he can "no longer reach above Trumpet-Maestro Louis Armstrong's high C and blacks out trying to reach high notes." Since, as a result, Gillespie "has been forced to reduce the size of his band from 14 to five persons." the musician wants damages totaling...