Word: duke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spark the show. ames Burt is a good Touchstone, if a strange one--his line readings are often incredibly fast, his hand gestures are always excessively generous, but his physical agility is delightful. Brian McGunigle (Corin) and Philippa Lord (Audrey) provide perfect comic cameos, while George Rosen doubling as Duke Senior and Duke Frederick, struggles bravely and often successfully with the one marked piece of ineffective casting in the production...
...local television channel, station KQED had the imagination and daring to begin a 13-interview series with Longshoreman-Philosopher Eric Hoffer five years before CBS discovered him. This fall KQED became the first U.S. station since 1960 to shoot a documentary inside Castro's Cuba. Its special on Duke Ellington, Love You Madly, was so lively that it was later played at the Edinburgh and Venice film festivals. Then there was the channel's Where's Jim Crow?, a weekly segment rooting out covert discrimination in the area. And, for a change of pace, there...
Despite such instances, Clayton built a reputation, even among his critics, for fair-mindedness. That, plus some reversals by higher courts, began to nudge him away from 19th century Southern justice. Clayton watchers agree that the balance was tipped by U.S. v. Duke in 1963, a voting-rights case in Panola County, Miss. Judge Clayton had ruled that Negroes barred from the voting rolls had not shown that they were actually qualified under Mississippi standards...
Married. Lady Sarah Spencer-Churchill, 45, Manhattan socialite daughter of the Duke of Marlborough, distant cousin of Winston Churchill; and Theodore Roubanis, 27, sometime actor, full-time playboy, and onetime companion of Actress Jeanne Moreau; she for the third time; in Philadelphia...
Apart from a probing sketch of Dorsey, Simon provides little that is fresh on such familiar figures as Miller, Benny Goodman, and Duke Ellington, but he gives appropriate recognition to some of the brilliant though now largely forgotten ensembles of the period: the sizzling band headed by tiny, hunchbacked Drummer Chick Webb, featuring Ella Fitzgerald, which triumphed at Harlem's Savoy Ballroom in a 1937 battle of the bands with Goodman's group; the lush, colorfully textured Claude Thornhill band; the showmanlike Jimmie Lunceford unit, whose buoyant two-beat style influenced such latter-day bands as Billy...