Word: clockings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clock every night in Paris, the trucks are jammed into every narrow street from the Opera to the Louvre. Horns squawk, cops shout, taxi drivers curse and take long detours, but nothing helps until 9 o'clock the next morning when the trucks roar away. The noisy, redolent center of this nightly hubbub, and its cause, is Les Halles Centrales, Paris' central food market...
...Woodwards left the party about 10'clock, drove home and went to their separate bedrooms. Ann, not a habitual user of sleeping pills, took one that night for cramps. What waked her has not been discovered. Police picked up Paul Wirths, a German refugee; he admitted that it was he who a few nights previously had broken into a cabana and a six-car garage on the Woodward estate and alarmed the family. He said he had not returned on the night of the killing, and he proved...
...Yale and Princeton, furthermore, administrators report that libraries are well populated between ten and midnight. The requests for longer hours at Harvard may, of course, be the work of a small and extremely vocal minority. In that case, the University will certainly be justified in resuming the ten o'clock curfew...
...steady jazz clubs in Boston, each band-leader has his own name for the music he plays. At the Downbeat, Jay Mugliori calls it "contemporary"; at the Five O' Clock Club, Miles Davis plays "modern", and in The Stable, Varty Haroutunian says it's "progressive." But all play in Boston's warm style. Essentially it is a cross between the hot emotionalism of bebop and swing, and the intellectual coolness of the West Coast...
...final stages for the new-comer who has weathered the Stable and the Downbeat is the Five O' Clock Club, a purple-dark oblong room rebounding with modern jazz compositions. Although depending entirely on the interest a beginner shows in this local appreciation tour it may normally take several months before a college student brought up on two-beat Dixie, begins to feel the real "warmth" of Boston Jazz