Word: bess
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Married. Bess Myerson. 37. TV mistress of ceremonies. Miss America of 1945; and Manhattan Lawyer Arnold Grant. 54. razor-sharp counsel for filmdom and onetime RKO board chairman; both for the second time; in Manhattan...
Enjoined by Wife Bess not to "show off like you usually do," Harry Truman, 77, was flawlessly decorous as he bestowed the Yale Club of Washington's annual "distinguished achievement" award on his last Secretary of State, Dean Acheson ('15). Responding to Truman's description of him as "one of the greatest of the great Secretaries of State,'' Acheson hailed his "beloved chief" as "a Yale man in every sense of the word,'' reminisced admiringly that "in the Truman Administration you often got shot in the front but never in the back." Summed...
...arrangers in the jazz of the past few years only one name need be mentioned: Gil Evans. His gifts go far beyond mere orchestration, as the Porgy and Bess album with Miles, or his own band on Impulse A-4 reveal. Bill Russo is an equally talented writer for large ensembles, a lonely figure who deeply believes that seriousness and self-conscious composing can be brought to jazz material. I strongly recommend The World of Alcina (Atlantic 1241) and School of Rebellion (Roulette 52063) if you are willing to listen carefully and then re-listen. The same might be said...
...just half an hour, Kennedy was airborne again, on the way to spend the night at Kerr's lavish (13 bathrooms) ranch house. Next morning the President flew back to Washington, where he entertained Harry and Bess Truman overnight at the White House. Then he was off again, to New York and New Jersey. At La Guardia Airport, Mayor Robert Wagner, growing increasingly nervous about this week's election, was waiting on the apron to greet him. The President's endorsement was in a mimeographed handout, which he did not read: "I want to take this opportunity...
...Leontyne's mind, Porgy and Bess was only an interlude: she still wanted a career in grand opera, and she started on that road by giving her first serious recital at Town Hall in the fall of 1954. The critics were enthusiastic, especially the Herald Tribune's Jay Harrison, who detected "a goddess performing among us." She has spent six seasons singing on the Community Concert circuit and in 1955 broke into opera as the lead in the NBC Tosca. Casting a Negro in the role, says Leontyne composedly, "created quite a rumpus, but it was a successful...