Word: easley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...young U.S. composers, like poets and novelists, turning beat? The New York Times's Howard Taubman suggested the question last week in commenting on the New York premiere of Symphony No. 1 by 25-year-old Indianapolis-born Easley Blackwood. The work's jaded tone, said Critic Taubman, marked it as "a reflection of the beat generation...
...Bridge Expert Easley Blackwood, father of the Blackwood four-notrump convention, Composer Blackwood studied at Yale under Paul Hindemith, moved on to Paris, where he became a student of Nadia Boulanger, for 35 years the musical nanny of top U.S. composers (TIME, Sept. 30, 1957). Now an instructor in the music department at the University of Chicago, Blackwood insists that his composition has no direct connection "with the times in which we live." Does he regard himself as beat? "Anybody looking at my picture," says Blackwood, "could tell that...
...also became the bridge mentor of his sometime boss, Dwight Eisenhower, the first good bridge player among U.S. Presidents. *The tournament team headed by Houston Bridge Pro John Gerber devised the Gerber convention in 1937 as a less troublesome substitute for the Blackwood, invented in 1933 by Indianapolis Insuranceman Easley Blackwood. Instead of using the Blackwood four-no-trump bid to ask partner how many aces he has, the Gerber convention starts out with four clubs, with partner responding four diamonds for one ace, four hearts...
...just sitting there," said Johnny Easley, 16, of San Angelo, Texas, "and all of a sudden it wasn't." Johnny and his friend Billy Hembree, 17, were sent to a hospital last week with minor injuries after trying to fly their do-it-yourself rocket, a 2-ft. copper tube filled with a mixture of zinc dust and sulphur. They lit it and ran. "It was just like the Flopnik [Vanguard]," said Billy, "going great at first. Then it just folded." When they returned to investigate, the rocket exploded. Johnny and Billy were lucky; a few weeks earlier, Science...
Straight Answer. In Toledo, when two cops demanded to know what Milton Easley was doing in another man's car, he replied sheepishly: "Stealing, I guess...