Word: elliott
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Elliott Doubles in Brass (Vanguard LP). Versatile Jazzman Elliott plays trumpet (sometimes choked with sorrow, sometimes sighing in contentment), the mellophone (an extravert relative of the French horn) and the chilly chimes of the vibraphone. Co-starring on this "Showcase" album: Pianist Ellis Larkins, who has a sophisticated beat all his own and a sweet, gentle way of dandling a tune...
...painfully crowded conditions, University officials maintain, should improve in a few weeks. "We have no way of knowing in September how many men are returning," Elliott Perkins '28, Master of Lowell House and secretary of the Housemasters' Council, said last night. "But once we know how many men didn't show up, we can place the unassigned students in permanent quarters...
...from Los Angeles, began a search for a genuine British lord to be master of ceremonies and do commercials on a series of half-hour TV films called Rendezvous with Vicki. Rendezvous is still merely an idea in the active brain of Vicki's friend and manager, Jack Elliott, ex-songwriter and Hollywood producer of TV commercials. Vicki is a 23-year-old platinum blonde whose generous measurements match Gina Lollobrigida's (36-22-35). By the time Vicki got to London three weeks ago, British nobility was forming a queue...
...answer them") and two who claimed a royal bar sinister, the applicants for the TV job totaled 18, all of them impressively blue-blooded. Vicki was so overwhelmed that at one point she announced: "We may end up by taking back more than one." But last week Vicki and Elliott got themselves in hand and hired just one, the first candidate, Lord Nugent, whose family goes back to the 12th century...
Lord Nugent's assets, according to Elliott: "Autocratic bearing, beautiful speaking voice, wonderful, pure Oxford accent, good-looking." Added Vicki: "Well-built, quick-witted, fine sense of timing." With the deal closed, Elliott relaxed in his hotel room, happy with the thought of peerless plugs for "everything from soap to beer." As the phone kept ringing, he reached for it, murmuring, "I have no time to do anything but brush off peers." But Vicki seemed sorry that the contest was over. "They've all been perfect gentlemen," she sighed...