Word: davises
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THE EMMY AWARDS SHOW OF 1965 (NBC, 10-11:30 p.m.). The 17th year has Sammy Davis and Danny Thomas doing the presenting.
These were the times that Professor Harmer Davis, transportation expert at the University of California, calls the period of caveat viator-let the traveler beware. With the '20s came the concept of traffic engineering, which finally adapted the carriage road of history to the internal-combustion car, providing gradual...
ANDREW HILL: POINT OF DEPARTURE (Blue Note). This is a highly individualistic combo with a strong visceral sound. The standout is the late saxophonist Eric Dolphy, who easily steals the record from Hill with searingly emotional solos, and stimulates Joe Henderson (tenor sax), Kenny Dorham (trumpet) and Richard Davis (bass...
New Perspectives. This final installment opens on the battle of Fredericksburg and closes with Lincoln's assassination. "It was the heaviest bullet, all things considered," writes Catton, "ever fired in America." Wherever possible Catton finds new perspectives along that blood-soaked two-year trail. Of Chickamauga, he writes: "The...
The war is steadily weighed against the Union's purpose, which fluctuated as wildly as the war itself along a course clearer perhaps to the historian than to the participant: "The nation had not been driven to war by its desire to free the slaves; instead it had been...