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Three days after the astronauts emerged from their capsule, the Wasp put in at Mayport, Fla. McDivitt and White were flown to Houston's Ellington Air Force Base, where their wives-both named Pat-their children and 1,500 well-wishers waited in 92° heat. Four-year-old Patrick McDivitt could hardly wait to blurt out some news. "Daddy! Daddy!" he cried. "I jumped off the high board!" McDivitt grinned, patted his son's head...
...advisory board turned down a prize for Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? This year no editorial cartoonist was deemed worthy of a prize, and no award was made for music because the advisory board nixed the selection of Jazz Musician Duke Ellington...
Thompson also supported the Pulitzer advisory board for rejecting the music jury's recommendation that a special citation be given to Duke Ellington. Although Ellington is an accomplished musician, Thompson said, "the prize was not created for music in that sphere...
...Swore in an old friend, Tennessee's former Governor Buford Ellington, 57, as director of the Office of Emergency Planning. Ellington had already been sworn in once, but Johnson decided that his first oath taking had been insufficiently publicized, ordered another ceremony. The President announced that Ellington would also act as a liaison with state Governors, and that all 50 Governors will be invited to Washington soon for a conference "about the various problems that face...
...DUKE ELLINGTON: MARY POPPINS (Reprise). The Duke leaves all the Hollywood sugar in these twelve pieces from the Disney movie and adds some corn (a growling trumpet, a wah-wah trombone). But there is deftness in most of his gentle transformations, and he seems to enjoy playing with the little pieces. The virtuosos of his big band step forward solemnly to play the songs of Mr. Banks, the children and the chimney sweep, and Saxophonist Paul Gonsalves scampers through Mary Poppins' exultant solo faster than one can say supercalifragilistic-expialidocious...