Word: buckings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last minute attempt to take the Committee's finances out of the red, the Jubilee group has decided to allow upper-classmen to attend its Friday night dance-concert. Among the performers at the Union event will be Buck Clayton, Coleman Hawkins, and Milt Hinton...
Also withdrawn-in the sense that he privately approved of these actions and passed the buck to the Chamber of Commerce-was Virginia's weak-kneed Governor Thomas B. Stanley, who had co-signed the engraved invitations with a flourish. But many another white Southerner was highly offended at the breach of good manners. In an open letter to Governor Stanley, Virginia-born Lambert Davis, director of the University of North Carolina Press, wrote: "[You] have taken the ridiculous position of asserting, in effect, that being distinguished is an accomplishment possible only for people of Caucasian ancestry. You have...
...picture's plot is as simple as a skid. A lush (Salyer) lands on The Street from nowhere in particular, blows his last buck on the booze, sells his second pair of pants to buy some more, passes out on the sidewalk, wakes up to find his suitcase stolen, takes a day's work as a crate hustler, tries to straighten himself out at the Bowery Mission but just can't stand the quiet and runs out for a quick one. That night he gets sapped and rolled in a back street, and the next morning decides...
Several of America's top jazzmen will form a jazz combo Friday night to play for an informal dance in the Union. Milt Hinton, Buck Clayton, Urbie Green, Jo Jones, Coleman Hawkins, and Osie Johnson will take part...
...Dutch-born Jacques Sarlie, 41, of New York who calls himself an investment specialist and an old business friend of Silberstein. Drawn into the limelight by SEC reports, Sarlie called in reporters last week to tell them that he is in the proxy battle only to make a fast buck-and he has done wonderfully. So far, he says, he has cleaned up at least $1,000,000 on his stock buying, thanks to agreements to sell to Silberstein at far more than the purchase price...