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...behave like students of If-. Says Beatle Spokesman John Lennon, 23: "The day the fans desert us, I'll be wondering how I'm going to pay for my whisky and Cokes." The other Beatles-Guitarists Paul McCartney, 21, and George Harrison, 20, and 23-year-old Drummer Ringo Starr (who wears four rings on his fingers)-are also keeping their heads. "We're not interested in living it up," says Ringo. "All our money goes into Beatles, Ltd., and we take only enough out for clothes and a few ciggies...
...Swazis. When U.S.-born Isidore William Schlesinger arrived in Cape Town in 1896, South Africa was in the throes of the gold rush. A salesman from Manhattan's Lower East Side, I. W. preferred to seek his fortune above the ground. Soon the diminutive (5 ft. 2 in.) drummer was coursing the veld in horse and buggy, selling life insurance to gold miners and Swazi chiefs for the U.S.'s Equitable Life Assurance-and earning a record $30,000 a year in commissions. He set up his own insurance company, then turned to real estate...
Dreams of Aid. Older musicians complain that the new, cerebral audience has taken all the joy out of jazz. "The extreme hips try to contemplate jazz rather than enjoy it," says Drummer Shelly Manne. "The audience isn't participating any more. They don't even tap their feet." Foot-tapping, of course, is unthinkable to those engaged in metaphysical seeking. "In me, jazz causes a great inner stirring," says an extreme hip. "It's an inner satisfaction unlike anything else. It's exciting, but more. It's a feeling like being tickled...
Historical novelists who use lowly characters to eyewitness the past customarily keep them close to the great captains-as, say, a cabin boy on the Santa Maria or a drummer dragged along in the wake of Napoleon's march to Moscow. But the wispy, aging English heiress who calls herself Bryher and now lives permanently in Switzerland writes historical fiction in her own strange way. Her latest book covers some 40 years of the Punic wars. Characteristically, her two major characters never take part in, or talk about, any of the major battles. They are not attached to either...
...long. Early last year, he was about to nail the lid on his career with a Dino de Laurentiis film called The Chet Baker Story, but as his luck would have it, the project was dropped: there was not enough material in a life so young and lost. > DRUMMER KENNY CLARKE, 49, was One of bebop's frontiersmen, and when he left for Europe in 1956, he was generally considered the best drummer around. He conceals his reasons for leaving behind a smile of wellbeing, and of all the Americans in Europe, Clarke is by far the most successful...