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...jazzmen. Some were almost unknown; others had been forgotten, lost, or given up for dead. Some had never played for white audiences before. Some had led proud, full bands before the depression. Nearly all of them had played with the greats of New Orleans jazz in their youths--Armstrong, Edmund Hall, Johnny Dodds, King Oliver, Sidney Bechet. These were just fellow musicians to these old men. There were only a handful of active musicians when Preservation Hall opened its gates to French Quarter audiences. When it became successful, the few active professionals were joined by others who had put their...
...long before his final crackup, Baker makes evident, Hemingway felt habitually threatened. The he-man swagger and the toothy grin camouflaged a soul less in the family of Jack London than of Edgar Allan Poe. Hemingway's life, like his writing, contained, in the words of Critic Edmund Wilson, "the undruggable consciousness of something wrong...
...Democratic candidate in a city with twice as many Democrats as Republicans. Against Yorty, who supported Richard Nixon in 1960 and who last year was touting himself as a potential Secretary of Defense in a G.O.P. Administration, that was not an impossible task. Bradley won endorsements from Senators Edmund Muskie, Fred Harris and California's own Alan Cranston and from former Governor Pat Brown. He mobilized 10,000 volunteers, set up 31 neighborhood headquarters, compensated for a lack of sizable contributions by attracting small sums from thousands of donors...
...city's April Fools' Day balloting also produced two winners with familiar names. Barry Goldwater Jr., 30, who may be more conservative than his Senator father, won the G.O.P. primary for a vacant Los Angeles seat in Congress. Edmund G. Brown Jr., 31, son of the former Governor, made good in his first race too, leading the primary field for a place on the city's newly created junior colleges board. Both are heavy favorites in their runoffs...
...Shakespeare, as usual, offers the final triumphant words of common sense in unshakable terms (though spoken by a villain, Edmund, in King Lear...