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...comic strips, published our expatriate novelists, embraced Hollywood movies and dubbed their directors "auteurs." And when the pioneers of bebop pushed jazz away from melody and into the ionosphere of improvisation, French intellectuals were happy to welcome these black American outlaws to Paris after World War II. Bud Powell, the pathfinding bop pianist, settled there in the '50s, made friends and musical history and went a little crazy. Dexter Gordon, a crucial link in tenor-sax bop between Lester Young and John Coltrane, spent some time on the Left Bank as well. Now Gordon, 63, returns to play an American...
Despite his retirement, Paley continued to visit his office at Black Rock daily and still got regular briefings on CBS's programming plans. Only last month he invited CBS Entertainment President B. Donald ("Bud") Grant to his Southampton summer home on Long Island to discuss the fall schedule. But Paley's dissatisfaction grew as he watched the network's fortunes decline. In a recent interview, he voiced disappointment that rival ABC had succeeded in wooing Lucille Ball, one of CBS's first TV stars, back in a sitcom this fall. "I think our people were stupid not to think...
...Court Justices are different from you and me. They wear black robes to the office. They work only nine months out of the year at full pay. And they don't cruise into 7-11 stores in the wee hours of the morning to pick up a case of Bud and bag of Doritos...
...Attribute the incident to Yale, MIT, the Lampoon, mob fever, mass hallucination, Ecstasy, Bud Lite, or flying saucers...
Harrington, 44, had been buffeted by crises almost from the day Mayor Bud Clark appointed her. The three-man commission, initiated by Clark, criticized her management style, as well as her insensitivity to the atmosphere of nepotism created by the fact that her brother-in-law and sister held bureau jobs, as did her husband, Officer Bruce Gary Harrington. The commission questioned the friendliness the chief and her husband had shown to a Portland businessman being investigated in a cocaine probe; it recommended a 25-day suspension of Gary Harrington. Penny Harrington, who declared herself "shocked" by the findings...