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...leading voice of dance and jazz bands. (Critic Leonard Feather once wrote that the coat of arms for F. Scott Fitzgerald could have been two alto saxophones rampant on a field of cocktail shakers.) Even so, the sax had to overcome the prejudice of old-line jazz purists. Trumpeter Bunk Johnson once complained that it did not fit into the traditional New Orleans ensemble of trumpet, trombone and clarinet. "It just runs up and downstairs with no place to go," said Bunk...
...Cyrus Vance, two Paris negotiators during the Johnson regime, supported Shriver, claiming that North Viet Nam's withdrawal of 22 to 25 regiments from the two northernmost provinces of South Viet Nam during the summer and fall of 1968 "signaled its willingness to reduce the level of violence." "Bunk," said Rogers...
...colonial autocrats like her husband ought to run the country with the same kind of free reign they have in the uncivilized wilds of the colonial empire. Coming perhaps closest to the truth, Shotover says that England is like a ship without moral navigation: "The captain is in his bunk, drinking bottled ditch-water; and the crew is gambling in the forecastle. She will strike and sink and split. Do you think the laws of God will be suspended in favor of England because you were born...
...lying on my bunk," said Lucious Jackson, 25, a rapist confined on the death row of Georgia State Prison, "when I heard one of the fellows shout that they've knocked it out. I had just about given up hope...
...cover. The man who chipped away at the writer's secrets was Frank McCulloch, New York Bureau chief. Previously, McCulloch had been the first to learn (along with one other reporter) that Edith Irving was "Helga Hughes. " The next discovery was that Nina van Pallandt would de bunk part of Irving's story. Last week it was McCulloch alone who uncovered the sources for the core of Irving's manuscript. One friend of Irving's com pared McCulloch to "Ahab, going after the white whale, holding on, holding on, like it's his last great...