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...smoky Manhattan bop-house called Birdland, a crowd of jazz fans gathered to hear a leisurely instrumental sextet skim through a performance that was neither Dixieland, swing, nor bebop. Not even a confirmed boppist could find a melodic phrase to sing "Ooble-dee-ah-de-coo" with, as the practice is nowadays; there was not even so much as a "Man, that's cool!"* Passionate disciples of blind Pianist-Composer-Theorist Lennie Tristano, 32, are much too conservative for such crudities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Schoenberg of Jazz | 8/27/1951 | See Source »

...most part the sketches are excellent fun. There are some good songs, including "General Effect," "Knock Wood," and "Coo Coo Jug Jug." Toward the middle of the second act there is a barren stretch of four dull and sometimes insipid numbers that Director Walter Crisham could cut with no trouble. Without them the show would move quickly all the way, and would come closer to a reasonable length...

Author: By Stephen O. Saxe, | Title: The Playgoer | 3/17/1951 | See Source »

...reserves the right to poke, pry, carp, coo and criticize at will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Real Romance | 2/26/1951 | See Source »

Charles E. "Coo Coo" Cook, guard on the freshman football team, was reported resting reasonably comfortably at Stillman Infirmary yesterday after suffering several jaw fractures during a fight with Cambridge youths Friday evening. The scuffle took place near Sargent College...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cook Recovers After Brawl With Ruffians | 2/13/1951 | See Source »

...consequently takes a serious, rather cautious point of view and is a bit of a bore"; Beulah Witch, who was arrested for reckless broomstick driving on Hallowe'en; Cecil Bill, a hysteric in a frightwig; Colonel Cracky ("from the Old South, suh"); Ophelia Ooglepuss and Clara Coo Coo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: You've Got to Believe | 1/2/1950 | See Source »

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