Word: ellington
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...when the bands roamed the countryside in gaudy caravans, carrying a whiff of the wide world with them. But, although there are fewer bands today, the top ones are making bigger money and getting more bookings. If they wanted to, such men as Ray Anthony, Harry James, Duke Ellington, Woody Herman and Les Brown could probably work every day of the week playing at colleges, in high school gymnasiums and under the tents. Stan Kenton nearly does work a seven-day week...
With an oversized key to the city on the seat beside him, Hometown Boy Duke Ellington, 63, cruised in an air-conditioned black limousine down Washington's Pennsylvania Avenue, right on past No. 1600 where his father and uncle once were White House butlers. Before him strutted the ten-piece Eureka Brass Band from New Orleans, whanging out a version of When the Saints Go Marching In that was loud enough to halt Press Secretary Pierre Salinger in the middle of a briefing. The occasion was the First International Jazz Festival, a People-to-People program with the Duke...
...speed, suits to force reapportionment have been filed or reinstituted in nearly a score of states. In Alabama a federal court has ordered the legislature to reapportion or have a court-ordered formula forced upon it. In Tennessee, where the stone that started the avalanche got rolling. Governor Buford Ellington announced last week that he was calling the legislature into special session to act on reapportionment. A suit challenging the apportionment of seats in the Georgia legislature is scheduled before a federal court in late...
...single-handedly stood off a Dartmouth charge with two hard tackles, center forward Chris Ohiri not control of the ball 20 yards out from the Indian nets on the right. He maneuvered around the milling defenders until he saw a clear shot, and then drove a low bouncer past Ellington into the left-hand corner of the goal. The score came after 6:30 of the second period...
Goalie John Adams could not match Ellington in finesse, but he showed tremendous courage. In the third quarter, an in-bounds kick came flying toward Adams and arrived simultaneously with two beefy Indian attackers...