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Trail Driving Days, by Dee Brown & Martin F. Schmitt. A first-class roundup of cow-country legends, thickly illustrated (TIME...
TRAIL DRIVING DAYS (264 pp.)-Dee Brown & Martin F. Schmitt-Scribner...
...Authors Dee Brown and Martin Schmitt spin plenty of such robust yarns in Trail Driving Days, and for added flavor and authenticity they pack in 229 portraits and illustrations. Some of the stories they tell have been told before, but seldom if ever have so many good ones been strung together, with honest-looking pictures. The result is a book that takes the old West away from the spurious westerns and gives it back to the real cowmen and bad men. Reality, in the cattle-driving days of 1850-1900, was fully as lively as most of the subsequent fiction...
...smoky Manhattan bop-house called Birdland, a crowd of jazz fans gathered to hear a leisurely instrumental sextet skim through a performance that was neither Dixieland, swing, nor bebop. Not even a confirmed boppist could find a melodic phrase to sing "Ooble-dee-ah-de-coo" with, as the practice is nowadays; there was not even so much as a "Man, that's cool!"* Passionate disciples of blind Pianist-Composer-Theorist Lennie Tristano, 32, are much too conservative for such crudities...
Chicago is the same story: good outfielding, nothing else. Andy Pafko, Hank Sauer, and Frank Baumholtz are pounding the ball, but the infield has only one even faintly bright spot--Dee Fondy, the rookie first baseman...