Word: bill
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DUKE ELLINGTON: "AND HIS MOTHER CALLED HIM BILL" (RCA Victor). The Ellington band plays an affectionate tribute to Billy Strayhorn, who was the Duke's alter ego and musical collaborator for 29 years before his death last year. Among the dozen fine Strayhorn selections are some mellow successes from the '40s, such as After All, Rain Check and Day-Dream. Three new songs composed just before his death make most admirable vehicles for the band: locomotive-paced The Intimacy of the Blues, which perfectly brings out its elegant, insinuating sound; Charpoy, a perking bounce; and Blood Count...
...piano. In Love No. 2, he riffles the strings, producing a wiry thring that scrolls around Charlie Haden's bass. With more songful tunes, such as Everything I Love and Margot, he applies his agile touch to the keyboard and produces some lyrical, tender moments reminiscent of Bill Evans' playing...
...enough for the Whites. Pointing to its 24% stock holding, the family demanded "pro rata representation," presumably meaning at least six seats, on the bank's 25-member board. First National countered by offering the family two seats, specified that both be filled by family representatives other than Bill White. "Young Bill is a very smart man," explains First National Chairman Montgomery Dorsey, 67. "But he doesn't have the maturity of judgment or outlook to go with his brilliance." Adds Adams: "We feel that he would be a disruptive influence on the board...
...evidence claimed that White himself had asked at least $140 in offering to sell out his family's holding. Urging shareholders to reject the tender, the bank has declared a dividend increase of 43%, from $2.80 to $4. With his tender offer due to expire August 27, Bill White was insisting meanwhile that his motivation went beyond mere youthful ambition. Said he: "This all comes back to a deepseated, three-generation love of Colorado...
...were Augie Martin, a black American pilot earning a little extra money while on vacation from Seaboard World Airlines; Martin's wife Gladys, whom McGuire thinks had come along to gather material for an article on Biafra; Jess Meade, also an American: and a Rhoedesian with the pseudonym of "Bill Brown." Mr. Martin's head was never found, McGuire says, so "the missionaries buried what they could find of him." "Bill Brown" reportedly had a wife and family in Rhodesia, who are vainly attempting to collect the money he deposited in a bank under his real name, for they have...