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Time: 1950. Scene: Birdland, the now defunct Manhattan cellar where the faithful gathered to hear the latest sounds of bebop. Backstage, the goings on were something less than harmonious, even for bop. The band was taking a vote. It seemed that the house pianist would not contribute to the group's heroin kitty. In fact, he was not interested in drugs at all. That would hardly do, and consequently Billy Taylor was voted out. "I don't know," recalls Taylor, "maybe they thought I was trying to give jazz a good name...
...could send out for restaurant meals and his Swiss wife Helly brought him wine from his own cellar...
...climbed out of the cellar with an 8-3 victory over the Cleveland Indians at Fenway Park yesterday. Carl Yazstrzemski socked two home runs to knock in three runs, and Tommy Harper had one homer and four RBIs...
Meanwhile, the Elis and Dartmouth, whom Harvard outlasted, 7-5, on Wednesday, are both scrambling to avoid the dank Ivy cellar. If the Bulldogs lose tomorrow, they're on the bottom for the first time since the Ivy League lacrosse inception...
Yale and Dartmouth will be fighting it out with the Crimson for the rights to the Ivy cellar...