Word: burma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cats in Asia When he blew into Burma and gave out with some hot licks at the University of Rangoon, Jazzman Benny Goodman was greeted after the performance by ex-Prime Minister U Nu, who cried ecstatically : "Your music makes my toes tickle!" It was like that all along Goodman's route through Asia. Benny and his band were scoring the same kind of rocking success in their Far East tour that Dizzy Gillespie had in the Middle East last year and Louis Armstrong had in Africa...
...Burma that Benny really wowed them. In Rangoon, Benny led his band dressed in pink gaungbawng headgear, black alpaca jacket and checked sarong. The crowd (including Soviet Ambassador Alexey D. Shiborin) went wild. "Thank the Lord I've lived to hear this!" cried a frenzied spectator. Before he left, Benny made a recording of the Burmese national anthem that may be made the official version by the Burmese government. Then Benny and band took off for six solidly booked concerts in Tokyo, where he was introduced as "the great Benjamin Goodman" and showered with flowers. Said one sideman nostalgically...
Last June round-faced, sharp-minded U Nu retired at his own request as Premier of Burma. His Anti-Fascist League won 170 out of 250 seats in the April election, but the Communists had picked up 40 seats, and U Nu sees no excuse for Communists. He asked for one year to reorganize and revitalize the league. Last week the Burmese government announced that U Nu was resuming his job forthwith-six months ahead of schedule. Interim Premier U Ba Swe will become one of three deputy Premiers...
...wouldn't agree that Monday was Monday unless it would help him," a U.S. China hand once said of Red China's Premier Chou Enlai. When Chou was asked, by way of Burma's U Nu, to sit still for a filmed interview for U.S. television, Chou must have believed it would help him. It did not. But it helped those who saw a special rush edition of CBS's See It Now this week to get a remarkable portrait-with-sound of the man who is in name one of the masters of a fourth...
Ostensibly Chou was in Rangoon to ratify the settlement of the Sino-Burmese border dispute, which he and former Burmese Premier U Nu worked out recently. This guaranteed that China would relinquish her claims to the Wa States in return for Burma's surrender of three Kachin villages annexed by Burma in the days of British rule. The Kachin villagers are ardently opposed to this plan...