Word: calloway
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...jazz percussionist whose 1958 recording of Topsy became the only drum solo ever to sell a million copies; of cancer; in Columbus. Born in East Orange, N.J., Cole made his first records with the legendary Jelly Roll Morton in 1930 and later played with such jazz greats as Cab Calloway, Benny Goodman, Dizzy Gillespie and Louis Armstrong...
There, up from a Washington suburb sporting an ice cream suit fit for Cab Calloway and a wife who made it known she had met Liz Taylor, was the kid who had been the class's best dancer. There, gowned in lavender and telling of an ended marriage while speaking of her new companion as "my fiance, my roommate, whatever," was the girl who had been head majorette. There, with the conspicuous tan and the bleached hair, baring a leg in a comic chorus-line kick-who could that...
...booze isn't bootleg any more, but the Cotton Club is as jazzy as ever. Harlem's celebrated nightspot, which closed in the 1940s, reopened its doors last week. Cavorting together in the new digs were Duke Ellington's granddaughter, Mercedes Ellington and Cab Calloway, 70, who used to Hi-dee-ho at the club in the '30s. "Just another gig," shrugged Calloway, who does about 150 a year and has just recorded a disco version of his 1931 hit Minnie the Moocher. "I live good. I don't indulge in anything other than...
Such clubhouse connections make Madigan an object of contempt among many peers, who, nonetheless, would do well to heed him. "John's criticism is first-rate," says John Calloway, news director of the local public television station, "but the question is whether his coziness destroys his credibility elsewhere...
...endless ability to scramble in and out of huge blocks of misshapen rubble is exhausted. The underground chase goes on for a little too long--any recent film like Bullitt could give us a more varied and exciting sequence, probably with helicopters and Jensens and a pyrotechnic climax. Major Calloway is a wiser, more upstanding policeman than any (although Ironside may be a close second) but he is part of the irrelevant, whodunit part of the story...