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Along with the Modern Jazz Quartet and Charles Mingus, vocalist Connor was one of the first artists signed to Atlantic Records' fledgling jazz division in 1955. This compilation, drawn from her 12 albums for the label--most long unavailable--is proof she could hold her own in such rarefied company. Her virtues: a voice nearly as pure and clear as Ella Fitzgerald's, yet spiked at times with a smoky, un-Ella-like sensuality; and a deeply personal, even abstract sense of phrasing. How can you not like a singer who's brassy enough to belt Summertime as hard...
Fortunately, Salk had somehow found time to do basic research on the virus and write a few theoretical papers, and it was these that caught the eye of Basil O'Connor, the zealous head of the Infantile Paralysis Foundation, who decided to play a hunch and shove some dimes in Salk's direction with instructions to get going...
Direct from Ireland, Lorraine Shine and Patricia O'Connor cheered as eight members of their organization, Special Olympics Ireland, walked in the parade next to their Cantabrigian counterparts...
Special Olympics Ireland is an extension of the American organization of the same name, but what is special about Shine and O'Connor's group is that it is the first of its kind to sponsor a global partnership in activities for persons with disabilities...
Following a few weeks in the States, learning about the U.S. and basketball, Shine and O'Connor will return to Ireland with members of the Cambridge Special Olympics basketball team to teach them about the Emerald Isle and about soccer...