Word: dens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pretty as pops-fine fodder for jazz improvisations-and his arrangements forthright and thoroughly disciplined. They proclaimed Gulda's jazz some of the best they had ever heard. The upshot: Pianist Gulda was booked for a two-week engagement in June in Manhattan's jazz den, Birdland, and the Newport Jazz Festival (July...
...glass), the congressmen next took part in a discussion of domestic policy, about which they had firmer ideas. The burning issues (raised by the country's 30,000 Buddhist monks) : prohibition of opium smoking, alcohol, prostitution, the slaughtering of cattle, working on Buddhist holidays. The spokesman for opium-den owners (frequented mainly by Chinese) was shouted down, and Norodom promised a ban on opium. But the use of alcohol was held to be legal because of the danger that "our peasants will ruin their health brewing their...
...Hear This. In Los Angeles, Mrs. Loretta Day, 53, filed suit for divorce from former Navy Lieut. Commander Charles B. Day, 63, charged that he logged her comings and goings, made her spend her vacation "swabbing the decks" to pass inspection, would not let her enter his den without permission when red, white and blue pennants were displayed outside the door...
...Como lives a relaxed home life at Sands Point, L.I., where, except for golf, his main preoccupation is his wife Roselle (they were married 23 years ago in Pennsylvania) and his three children (two of whom are adopted). Most evenings he lies on a green couch in his den, munching apples and pears and watching television...
...income. But, as Conte Aguero summed it up: "Some tourists look for beautiful vistas and historic sites, while others seek brothels and adventure anywhere they go. These last-named bury themselves in bawdyhouses, which exist here as elsewhere, and think that all Havana is the same as the tiny den to which their desire for a spree led them...