Word: ella
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Family: The marshal and his wife Alexandra have two daughters-Era, married to the son of Marshal Vasilevsky, and Ella, wife of Marshal Kliment Voroshilov's grandson...
Everybody was there-Roy Eldridge and Gerry Mulligan, Count Basie and Dave Brubeck, Erroll Garner and Ella Fitzgerald and a gaggle of other big-name jazz artists-as the fourth Newport (R.I.) Jazz Festival opened last week with the authority of an established institution. On opening night, there was a moist-eyed party in honor of Trumpeter Louis Armstrong's 57th birthday, which Louis ended on a sour note by blasting out The Star-Spangled Banner and stomping off stage when he found he could play only 13 numbers. Eartha Kitt undulated her way through a 15-minute dance...
...Chamber of Commerce wired a withdrawal of the invitation, and Dr. Powell, who at first insisted that he would attend, finally bowed out. In Toledo, Negro Civic Leader Ella Phillips Stewart heard about the ruckus and decided that she would not accept her invitation. In Chicago, Roosevelt University Sociology Professor St. Clair Drake also received an invitation, but the word from Richmond was that his invitation-as well as any others that had slipped through the racial screen-would be withdrawn...
Chimes for Seniors. At times Ella Fondren takes her beneficiaries completely by surprise. After a tour of one of her hospitals, she suddenly decided that it needed a radioisotope laboratory, promptly put up $52,000 to install it. Hearing that an S.M.U. graduating class wanted to give the university a set of chimes but could not raise enough money, she told the seniors to go ahead, and picked up the tab herself. In a brief talk before one of the Fondren Lectures, she casually-and unexpectedly-announced that she was going to donate $1,000,000 to give S.M.U...
...years of giving, Ella Fondren has tried to keep her charities as secret as possible. But now and then, as last week, someone decides to honor her. On one such occasion, she dutifully accepted the honor, then summed up her own philanthropist's credo: "No individual is honored as an individual. His life takes on a dignity as the causes to which he attaches himself take on dignity...