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...rare solo concerts, in Manhattan's Whitney Museum, Jazz Pianist-Composer Duke Ellington received an even rarer compliment. Togo's Ambassador to the U.S. presented him with a block of his country's stamps honor ing four great composers. "Ah," said the delighted Ellington, "Debussy, Bach, Beethoven-and Duke...
Died. Buford Ellington, 64, former Governor of Tennessee; of a heart attack; in Boca Raton, Fla. A country boy whose ambition was the Methodist ministry, Ellington became an ally of Governor Frank Clement and a power in conservative Democratic politics. After successfully managing two of Clement's campaigns, Ellington in 1959 succeeded his friend in the Governor's chair. In 1965 Lyndon Johnson appointed him Director of the Office of Emergency Planning, but Ellington served less than a year before quitting to run again, successfully, for Governor. As a favorite-son presidential candidate, he promoted Southern support...
...pleasure to hear the voice of experience. As an Air Force major, Murray administered a $37 million military budget. He is also a certified intellectual who can whip a line from Sophocles to Bessie Smith, with enough left over to tie down Max Weber, Kenneth Burke and Duke Ellington...
...that "only one approach was tolerated," explained Menuhin. "But now they are beginning to see that there may be two or more approaches to anything. That is what I mean by sophistication." Also in Moscow, Russian Poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko commented on the sound of the great Duke Ellington, whose band has been packing in the Red cats for a series of 22 concerts. "A bit old-fashioned," said the poet, "but perfectly executed...
Awaiting Band Leader Duke Ellington when he arrived in Minsk, the second stop on his five-city concert tour of Russia, were a dozen New York cut T-bone steaks. They had been flown in at the request of the U.S. State Department, which had heard that the Duke was wasting away-at the rate of five pounds per day-on Russian cooking. "This is a lie," roared the Duke. "I weighed about 173 when I left the States. But the way my stomach is sticking out now, I know I weigh a lot more." Besides, he added, "I like...