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JAZZ MASTERPIECES (Columbia). The latest crop of reissues in this remarkable four-year-old project features classic performances by such legends as Miles Davis, Roy Eldridge and Billie Holiday. But the most welcome new arrival to the series is trumpeter Bix Beiderbecke, whose digitally remastered 1927 sides capture the haunting tone and phrasing of the original "young man with a horn...
...sends copies to aides for follow-up. On the show, Bush's eyes may have seemed to glaze over when Agriculture Secretary Clayton Yeutter presented him with a copy of the new farm bill, but the President is more able than most politicians to argue the finer points of crop subsidies. There was a brief glimpse of Bush hunt-and- pecking on an electric typewriter, but the script failed to make clear that he comes to work most mornings with an armful of thank-you notes, typed up the night before in his private study in the White House...
Such habits draw fire. The humor magazine Spy tabulates the number of times Liz's favorites are named in her column: the Today show's Deborah Norville shares top honors with Barbara Walters, both having garnered a mention every six days on average. (Frank Sinatra and Sylvester Stallone crop up every eight days; Madonna gets a boost every twelve.) Boston Herald gossip columnist Norma Nathan thinks Smith is a celebrity groupie who protects her pals: "She's so In, she's Out. She's become part of the story...
...Harvard wrestling team was king of the hill. Only falling to powerful Cornell and sailing on a five-match winning streak last weekend, the Crimson was the cream of the crop, top of the heap...
Conspiracy theorists will love the new edition of How Harvard Rules. So will the University's ever-present crop of crusading campus activists--particularly those who contributed to the book...