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...greats?and all tomorrow's stars?are filling the nights with once and future jazz. A season's billboard reads like an arpeggio of jazz excitement: Teddy Wilson, Benny Carter, Charles Mingus, Count Basie, Thelonius Monk, Milt Hinton, Cootie Williams, Maynard Ferguson, Buddy Rich, Stan Getz, Earl Hines, Herbie Hancock, Dizzy Gillespie. They are playing blues, bop, jazz rock, honky tonk and ethereal moondust. The newest jazz center is in SoHo lofts, where young audiences gather to hear warm, contrapuntal, richly melodic explorations. "We never repeat," says Sam Rivers, founder of Studio Rivbea. "For three hours straight, ideas keep flourishing...
...Army, which raised 200,000 men only 15 years ago in the war against France, is trying to recruit 55,000 to conquer the Americans, who are thought to be no match for well-trained European troops. Reflecting a general sentiment, the Earl of Sandwich, First Lord of the Admiralty, says that the Americans are "raw, undisciplined, cowardly men." For lack of volunteers to fight what many consider a civil war, however, the government has turned abroad, first, and in vain, to Russia, then to Britain's traditional allies in northern Germany. Nearly 18,000 mercenaries were hired earlier...
...Earl of Sandwich, First Lord of the Admiralty,* decided to test Cook by inviting him to dinner and describing the Resolution's new assignment. Despite the fact that his wife Elizabeth was pregnant with their third child. Cook immediately volunteered. Since then, he has been gathering adventurous young crewmen like Astronomer James King, former Dartmouth Student John Ledyard, and Sailing Master William Bligh. Says Cook: "I embark on as fair a prospect as I can wish...
...earl, a passionate gambler, dislikes rising from the gaming table for the sake of a meal, so he has devised the practice of placing a slice of meat between two pieces of bread, a dish sometimes known as a "sandwich...
...better-known teammates he provides biographical accounts, which are almost always ironic reversals of the Chip Hilton hero-makes-good stories. He traces the life of Willis Reed from cotton-picking in Mississippi to knee operations in the NBA; Jerry Lucas from Phi Beta Kappa and stardom to bankruptcy; Earl Monroe from street fighting in Philadelphia to racial harrassment in New York; and Walt Frazier from a defunct pimp father to a Rolls Royce and the clothes his father would envy. Like Bradley, they are all past their peaks: not necessarily their peaks of efficiency for a pro team...