Word: chet
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...have tossed the discus farther: Gordien and Olympic Record Holder Sim Iness. ¶At Indianapolis, qualifying for the Memorial Day 500-miler, Jack McGrath set a new record for the four-lap (ten miles) sprint of 141.033 m.p.h. Old (1952) record: 139.034 m.p.h., set by the late Chet Miller. ¶ In Moscow, World Champion Chess Player Mikhail Botvinnik, 43, retained his title after a long (24 games) match with Challenger Vassily Smyslov...
None of the three men who now play with Mulligan were with him on the Coast. Gone is Chet Baker, a trumpeter who got too good to play second fiddle. Together, Baker and Mulligan worked perfectly--the easy, sliver-like sounds of Baker's horn a perfect complement to the fullness of the baritone sax. Not until last night have I heard Brookmeyer do as well with Mulligan as Baker...
...winners of the 14th Annual Peabody Awards, announced in Manhattan this week: RADIO NEWS: ABC's Chet Huntley (of Los Angeles station KABC), because he has "consistently demonstrated a talent for mature commentary on the controversial issues of the day." PUBLIC SERVICE (REGIONAL) : Atlanta's NBC station WSB, for adding "luster" to broadcasting with its project, Removing the Rust from Radio...
Anything but the Obvious. Chet Baker never had a trumpet lesson in his life, flunked out as a junior college music major. He taught himself the trumpet in junior high school when he wanted to join the band, later played in Army bands in Berlin and San Francisco. He played with a few California combos before he made his big splash with Gerry Mulligan's quartet in 1952 (TIME...
...Chet Baker is not worrying about the historians. If there is a guiding idea behind his playing, it is simply "to get away from the obvious. We try to play different things that fit together," he says. He likes Los Angeles because "this is where the new sounds are coming from." He is a happy man: "When I'm up there blowing some new conceptions and I see the audience likes it, it's a gas. That's good enough...