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However, the Dartmouth backfield can be scored upon. The defense has yielded 15 goals in five games, and 11 in three Ivy encounters. Fullbacks David Blake and Henry Muller are big, but slow, and sophomore goalie Duke Ellington does not seem to have the necessary experience and coolness under fire...
...Benny Goodman presented the N.A.A.C.P.'s 44th annual Spingarn Award (for high achievement by an American Negro) to "an old and cherished friend." Added to such names as George Washington Carver, Marian Anderson, Richard Wright, Ralph Bunche and Jackie Robinson: the jazz world's Edward Kennedy ("Duke") Ellington...
...festival. Last week, under a hot July sun, jazz festivals started erupting across the land. As usual, the major hostilities started at Newport. Now in its sixth year and still the most prestigious of the lot, the Newport festival regularly attracts the royalty of the summer circuit -Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Erroll Garner, the Modern Jazz Quartet, et al.-at fees ranging up to $4,000 a package. The festival is extravagantly promoted, strenuously recorded and religiously re ported by some 500 members of "the working press" (including this year a Massachusetts optometrist representing the British Jazz Journal...
...also expected this summer in the eucalyptus-fringed Hollywood Bowl (the First Annual Los Angeles Jazz Festival), New York City's Randall's Island (the Randall's Island Jazz Festival), the Michigan State Fair Grounds (Michigan State Jazz Festival) and Tamiment-in-the-Poconos (the Duke Ellington Jazz Festival...
After six years of life in England, the Baltimore kid had come home to play Gershwin, Debussy and Bach, Rachmaninoff, Ravel and Ellington. Whatever the piece, the pleasure of his fans was the measure of his welcome...