Word: daves
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...guidance he got from the headless group of bosses was conflicting and shifting. At first he was to be dignified, and act like a statesman. Later in the campaign, he was ordered to attack the Democrats. In the end, he was to be constructive. When Wood invaded Pittsburgh, where Dave Lawrence's unpopular wage tax was a sitting duck, Wood ignored Lawrence, overlooked the burning issue. When Leader challenged him to a debate on the issues, Wood, who is also a farmer, responded with a challenge to a plowing contest. Leader replied that he would plow if Wood would...
...last year's IC4A finish. He said a great deal depends on how well Bill Morris can run. Morris, the team's number three man, has been weakened most of the season with virus attacks. Besides Morris, the other varsity runners entered are Al Wills, Don French, Dick Wharton, Dave McLean, Paul Beck, and Bob Holmes...
...Anybody Happy? Dave Brubeck is not stopping. Besides his inner drive, there is plenty of competition to keep him interested. Big bands continue to get off the ground (Count Basie, Woody Herman's "Third Herd," Duke Ellington). The nation is laced with touring jazz packages, e.g., "Jazz at the Philharmonic," with stars such as Pianist Oscar Peterson, Trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie and Singer Ella Fitzgerald. Serious composers continue to find stimulation in jazz; this month will see the U.S. premiere of a work by Swiss Composer Rolf Liebermann, a kind of concerto grosso in which the Sauter-Finegan band will...
...these days, restless Dave Brubeck thinks he may go back to his original ambition of being a composer. In the meantime, he is finding that his improvised kind of music is just as real as the "composed" kind. Says he: "I can go out and play and not give a damn whether I am a composer or not. I have yet to find the composer who I think is happy. Composers have all year to think about the next note. We have to decide in a second. But they are not played very much, while in jazz you can perform...
later, interj. Catchall word for "I'll be seeing you"; also used at the end of letters, e.g., "Later . . . Dave...