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...TENNESSEE 89% of the vote GOVERNOR Ellington (D) (unopposed) U.S. SENATOR Baker (R) 449,000 Clement (D) 361,000 U.S. House (9): +1 Republican...
...JAZZ PIANO (RCA Victor). Half a dozen pianists take the stage at the Pittsburgh Jazz Festival to give a fine, festive survey of their art. The course starts with Contrary Motion, played by Willie "The Lion" Smith, professor emeritus of the bouncing left-hand "stride" piano, which Duke Ellington gracefully imitates in his impressionistic Second Portrait of the Lion. Starting out ever so simply in Somehow, Earl "Fatha" Hines soon fills all the spaces with increasingly intricate trills and runs. Most emotionally eloquent of the lot, Mary Lou Williams plays 45° Angle and Joycie with declarative force and powerful...
...this year, partly because of decreased giving by grumbling parishioners. Pike has delighted some and scandalized others by allowing a policy of open communion in his diocese, and by permitting the use of Grace Cathedral for a modern art exhibit, a jazz mass, and the premiere of Duke Ellington's In the Beginning...
...liveliest new sounds in the park blare out five nights a week from a skating rink, where such stars as Duke Ellington, Judy Collins and The Animals have sold out the 4,250 seats (at $1 each) so often that the producers have had to schedule double performances in 16 shows, are already planning another series next year with expanded seating. Another new attraction is the Manhattan Opera Company, whose English-language productions include an Aida that is set in the present-day South, with Ramfis as Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan and Aida his Ne gro servant...
Soon, the two candidates decided to cool their connections. Ellington found that the conservatives to whom he was appealing for support cared very little about Lyndon Johnson-or any other Democrat, for that matter. Hooker found himself under attack as an agent of "outside forces" trying to intervene in Tennessee politics. Instead of being a surrogate Johnson-Kennedy contest, the race turned into an out-and-out battle between Newcomer Hooker and the powerful Tennessee political machine controlled by Ellington and present Governor Frank Clement, who was running for the Senate in last week's primary. The organization, which...