Word: chicago
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American Boy. Chicago-born-as George Clinton Eccles-Terrell was raised by a grandmother (his parents had separated) who gave him his grandfather's name. Struck by theater magic at Chicago's Francis Parker School (recalls Fellow Student Celeste Holm: "He always seemed to be understudying John
...scene last week was The Embers in Manhattan, but it could have been anywhere along the big-time jazz belt that stretches from New York to Chicago's London House to The Sands in Las Vegas. Slowly the tide of conversation washes back through the murky rooms, slowly Jonah works his muted way through the numbers his fans want to hear-Rose Room, 76 Trombones, Too Close for Comfort, and his signature, Mack the Knife. Throughout, Jonah juggles the symbols of his success-the bagful of mutes through which he makes his trumpet whisper and wail, growl, shiver...
...float out a beautifully fluid legato with every note fully etched, or rasp out a low, "dirty" tone while keeping the melody under rigid control, or punch out a bright, high note and linger over it with a heavy vibrato. The arrangements are so simple that the customers, as Chicago Disk Jockey Marty Faye notes, "can sit at a table and chat and still enjoy Jonah...
MERGER TERMS were approved by directors of General Dynamics Corp. (1958 sales: $1.5 billion) and Chicago's Material Service Corp. (1958 sales: $114.4 million), which will become an autonomous division of General Dynamics. Deal calls for stock of Material Service (building materials, concrete, coal), almost all held by Chairman Henry Crown and his family, to be exchanged for approximately $125 million worth of General Dynamics stock...
Died. Patricia Stevens Muntz, 45, owner of Patricia Stevens, Inc., largest combination modeling-agency-charm school in the U.S.; of heart failure (she left two farewell notes and an empty bottle of barbiturates under her deathbed); in Chicago. A onetime Powers model, Pat opened a small agency of her own in Chicago in 1942, over the years added ingenious beauty lures for plain girls, upped enrollment to 2,000, grossed over $1,000,000 a year, had 41 agencies in other cities. In her last days she quarreled bitterly over control of her business with second husband Earl ("Madman") Muntz...