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Since Oldtime Songwriter Hughie Cannon wrote the lyrics in 1902, singers have been pleading in every form of jazz from ragtime to bop: "Won't you come home, Bill Bailey, won't you come home? Bill...
...Willis ("Prez") Young, 49, whose light and easy tenor saxophone was among the coolest in the history of jazz, Mississippi-born alumnus of the Count Basie band; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Young became known as "The President" for his superiority in his field. His early influence helped bop...
...California, and changed the characters to modern types. None of these types is original. Most of them, oddly enough, are very funny. The hero is portrayed as the sort of healthy youth who hung around with Superboy in the halcyon days of Superman D.C. publications; his friend becomes a bop musician temporarily without an instrument; the footman becomes one of those stereotyped Mexicans, all sombrero and somnolence; and so on. Joel Crothers, Joel Henning, and Al Graubard, respectively, play these roles, and Caroline Cross is the heroine. What they lack in finesse (a good deal, for some of them), they...
Painful to Remember. Tempers grew so hot in the Diet that brisk fighting broke out though members themselves stayed out of the line of fire while they sent forth their male secretaries to bop one another with chairs and lunch boxes. Socialists, stirring up the ruckus inside the Diet and labor leaders calling a general strike outside it, were, said Kishi, threatening the parliamentary democracy "which you claim to cherish." But they were not the only opponents of the bill. Throughout Japan last week, responsible men and women with vivid memories of the days when the police could arrest...
...Jordan meets other Phoenix Islanders, she begins to feel that only the sun, sea and sand qualify as neither phony nor vicious. There is a Beat Generation bop-talker who tries to soft-sell Jordan on a cool love affair. There is a native Neanderthal man who tries to pin Jordan to the floorboards of the half-built ginmill in which he hopes to mulct the summer trade. There are assorted homosexuals, spivish repairmen and alcoholics-unanimous from TV, ad alley and publishers' row. The crisis on which the plot slowly turns is whether the Neanderthal man will complete...