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Harlem's overwhelming musical impact on the jazz age is conveyed by a room where pictures of Duke Ellington, Fletcher Henderson and Bessie Smith are flashed onto eight screens, while loudspeakers boom their music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exhibitions: Harlem Experiment | 1/24/1969 | See Source »

...debriefing sessions aboard the recovery carrier Yorktown, where their spaceship, blackened by its fiery re-entry into the earth's atmosphere, also got a scientific onceover. Flown from the Yorktown to Hawaii, the astronauts boarded an Air Force C-141 jet transport for a 10-hr, flight to Ellington Air Force Base, just five miles from Houston's Manned Spacecraft Center...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Triumphant Return from the Void | 1/10/1969 | See Source »

...strong campaign for so conservative a state with concentrated support in Nashville, Knoxville, and Oak Ridge. They developed strong ties with black moderates and militants; the Negro power structure, while sympathetic, is still aligned with the old guard machine led at this time by Gov. Buford Ellington. With constant work liberals can have a serious influence on the party stance and elect progressive local and legislative officers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Liberal Challenge: State by State | 9/23/1968 | See Source »

...DUKE ELLINGTON: "AND HIS MOTHER CALLED HIM BILL" (RCA Victor). The Ellington band plays an affectionate tribute to Billy Strayhorn, who was the Duke's alter ego and musical collaborator for 29 years before his death last year. Among the dozen fine Strayhorn selections are some mellow successes from the '40s, such as After All, Rain Check and Day-Dream. Three new songs composed just before his death make most admirable vehicles for the band: locomotive-paced The Intimacy of the Blues, which perfectly brings out its elegant, insinuating sound; Charpoy, a perking bounce; and Blood Count...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television, Theater, Records, Cinema, Books: Straw Hat | 8/23/1968 | See Source »

...Governors John Connally of Texas, Buford Ellington of Tennessee, Robert McNair of South Carolina and John McKeithen of Louisiana; former Governors Carl Sanders of Georgia and Terry Sanford of North Carolina; Senator George Smathers of Florida...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The South: Coy, with Clout | 8/23/1968 | See Source »

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