Word: duke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Duke of Windsor was temporarily poorer by $20,000. A fire on his ranch...
Last week, Manhattan got its first chance to hear dashing, 26-year-old Di Stefano. New York's Italian opera fans, a demonstrative lot, were out in strength. As the Duke in Verdi's Rigoletto, Giuseppe's soaring tenor was always good, if not always golden; and he had a dramatic way of hanging on to his ringing top notes until the claque started. The claque's din was soon equaled by the audience's "bravos...
...London, Cabbie Elmo Poluck felt a sharp jolt from behind, climbed out to pay his respects to the other driver. "What's your name and address?" he demanded. The embarrassed reply: the Duke of Edinburgh. "Then," Poluck reported, "something inside me brain clicked, and I looked up and said, 'Oh, oh, so it is!' Then I lost my equilibrium. ... I saw the Princess smiling inside the car, so I raised my hat to her and she nodded back. Then they drove away...
Toni got her rhythm naturally. Her mother was once in the Cotton Club chorus, has always wanted her kids in show business. And her father, a redcap at Los Angeles' Union Station, owns a roomful of hot records-Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, Louis Jordan. "Daddy likes to riff," says Toni sternly. "'Sometimes he keeps us awake all night." But two years ago, Toni began riffing...
...wasn't swing: toothy Stan Kenton had already pronounced that "dead, gone, finished." Some doubted that it was even jazz: it had a shifty beat (and sometimes none), little-if any-form, and even less improvisation. Most of it sounded like Duke Ellington with the D.T.s. But when Kenton's band got to pushing out such huge, screeching blotches of sound as Artistry Jumps and Message to Harlem, the fans ripped the place wide open. They listened to his newest and most pretentious masterpiece;, Prologue Suite in Four Movements, in a state of glassy somnam-bulance. When Kenton...