Word: davises
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reining up for a border baggage check down Mexico way, bouncy Song-and-Dance Man Sammy Davis Jr. stood briefly in the law's firm grasp. Collared by U.S. Customs agents, Sammy was frisked to his skivvies, found toting a .22-cal. pistol. Explained he: "I'm an...
Davis. A onetime cow college, fattened since 1951 by the addition of a college of letters and science. Davis has a collection of bright young Ph.D.s, a small-town cohesiveness rare in the university complex, and 3,000 acres for 2.320 students.
"Next year," said Saxophonist Paul Desmond, "maybe they could arrange to have Eisenhower at the same time." Just about everybody else, it seemed, was on hand last week for the opening of the fifth and biggest Newport (R.I.) Jazz Festival. The Duke was back for a Tribute-to-Ellington night...
Full Sphere. Last year's festival, the most successful ever, netted $50,000 (including $5,000 to establish a free clinic for narcotics-addicted jazzmen). The 1958 festival is almost certain to clear even more than that. But as Newport's popularity with the public soars, its reputation...
Stanley Tackney does well as the news analyst who once said over the air, "Congratulations, President Dewey." Josephine Nichols, as his scatter-brained wife, would be fine if she didn't keep letting her voice rise to a shrill level. Kathern Shaw and Jeff Davis make an appealing pair of...