Word: daves
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...surprise, the festival's standout was the Dave Brubeck Quartet. Blending classical and jazz traditions with a masterful touch, Milhaud-trained Pianist Brubeck (TIME cover, Nov. 8, 1954) and his mates (Eugene Wright on bass, Joe Morello on drums, Paul Desmond on alto sax) made each number sound like a theme and variations. The quartet usually started with well-known tunes (These Foolish Things, St. Louis Blues), then varied the tempo (from 4/4 to 5/4 and back to 3/4) as it injected its own sometimes loud, sometimes soft designs. The solo lead flew like a badminton bird from...
Labor. One of the most significant NATIONAL AFFAIRS stories of recent years has been the revelation of corruption in the Teamsters Union. More than two years ago, TIME looked into the Teamsters' aromatic stable in a cover story on Dave Beck, then boss of the union. On Labor Day, 1957, TIME summed up the congressional hearings on labor up to that point, and concluded: "There is a strong likelihood of more restrictive labor laws." After three years of congressional investigation of the Teamsters, TIME decided that it was time to restudy and recap the record, which Teamster Boss Jimmy...
During the mid-1950s, when fat. greedy Dave Beck was president of the Teamsters, Jimmy Hoffa was No. 2 man on the surface but already No. 1 in real power. In 1957 he elbowed discredited Dave Beck aside, got himself elected president with a salary of $50,000 a year, plus $15,000 extra from Local 299, plus a bottomless expense fund. Despite his prosperity, Jimmy Hoffa, with his wife Josephine and their son and daughter, has conspicuously continued to live in the lower-middle-class Detroit house that he bought 20 years...
...equipment and supplies: drug and instrument manufacturers have donated material, several individual gifts topping $100,000. For ready cash, Dr. Dooley plowed in his book royalties and the proceeds from grueling lecture tours, once raised $10,000 (largely in dimes and quarters) from a single, heartfelt appeal on Dave Garroway's Today program...
...Russians find out? Simply by taping everything they hear over the Voice of America and by smuggling records through Poland. In literally dozens of homes, the U.S. visitors found big tape collections; one Moscow physicist, who plays "a real cool saxophone." had everything from Ella Fitzgerald to Dave Brubeck and Sarah Vaughan. Poorer musicians who cannot tape or smuggle records cut their own homemade disks on discarded X-ray plates. "We saw one," says Mitchell, "on which you could still see somebody's bones...