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...event was billed at Winthrop under the somewhat misleading title of "Doc Wells and Seven Swinging Surgeons." Actually, as noted, the group consisted of three doctors, a dentist, and five businessmen and professionals--all from Weston. They play mostly for themselves ("Our wives don't lot us away too much"), but appear in public on select occasions ("There has to be a little booze"). Since Condon's moved to the East Side and went respectable--they don't serve you under eighteen any more--this was your reviewer's first encounter with hot jazz. And it was refreshing...
String of Trumpets (Billy Mure, his Guitar and Orchestra; Everest). Player Mure has muted his guitar and assembled an impressive crowd of trumpeters-Doc Severinsen, Ernie Royal, Bernie Glow among others. They eloquently blare out big-band and specialty numbers...
Died. Major General (ret.) Charles Wolcott ("Doc") Ryder, 68, much-decorated Army hero of both world wars, who in 1942 commanded the Allied invasion force that hit eastern Algeria and proceeded to mop up the entire country within 76 hours (while he and Envoy Robert Murphy negotiated the end of French resistance with Vichy's Admiral Jean Darlan in Algiers); of a heart attack; in Vineyard Haven, Mass...
...Clan fans (Sinatra, disguised in blackface, asks Sammy Davis Jr.: "How do you get this stuff off?"). And for students of the ridiculous, there is a memorable doctor's-office line. Says ailing Richard Conte to a solemn-faced physician: "You can give it to me straight, doc. Is it big casino...
...worrying about whether Virgil would come home at night alive. Lodged at the edge of the Mexican quarter with the other Earp women-Bessie, wife of Jim Earp, a half brother; Wyatt's wife Mattie; and "Big Nose" Kate Elder, the Kansas prostitute who married an Earp sidekick, "Doc" Holliday-Allie sewed, cooked, gossiped and quarreled. Time and again, Allie and Mattie got tired of being cooped up while the men were on the town. Once they decided to explore the place themselves, and were promptly picked up. As Allie remembered it: "I ain't goin...