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...Broadway. They seem to win hands down on presence and arrangement, but something lacks, and they must settle for third. The Second Edition has easily made the cut too but is haunted by a mediocre first round. Tonight in rhinestone tuxes, they bring the crowd to a frenzy with Darktown Strutters' Ball. Cumulative scores do them in, however, and they finish second...
Died. Joe Frisco (real name: Louis Wilson Josephs), 68, stuttering comedian of vaudeville and nightspots, famed for his nonstop quips ("I, had a g-g-great day at the track. I got a r-r-ride home") and the Frisco Dance, a soft-shoe treatment of The Darktown Strutters' Ball trademarked by a tilted derby and a glowing cigar; of cancer; in Hollywood...
...Civil War, General Ulysses Grant planned the siege of Vicksburg from headquarters on Beale Street. But its real fame and flavor began after Reconstruction and the yellow fever epidemic of 1876-1878, when the white man moved away, and the street became the Main Stem of Memphis' darktown. The night life and mayhem, and, above all, the music of Beale Street became famous up and down the Mississippi...
...year White was born on the outskirts of Atlanta's Darktown, 152 U.S. citizens, mostly Negroes, were murdered by mobs. In his lifetime, 3,017 men and women were lynched in the U.S., but when Walter White died of a heart attack last week, there had been no lynchings for four years. "If there's any single monument to Walter," said Roy Wilkins of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, "it's the record wiped clean of lynchings." The Boys Were Looking. Because of his appearance, White was peculiarly equipped to fight racial segregation...
...small crowd was treated to a brief concert between the halves of the Adams-Winthrop contest when a small Adams House band, consisting of four trumpets, two trombones, cymbals, and a small bass drum, marched onto, the field and played "Wintergreen" and "The Darktown Strutters' Ball...