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...widely regarded jazz pianist, Ellis Marsalis, who was playing behind Al Hirt. Marsalis had a little boy of six named Wynton at home, and Wynton had an older brother named Branford, who was playing both clarinet and piano by the time he reached second grade. Feeling a few faint nudges of paternal concern that Wynton not fall behind in the musical Futurity Stakes, Ellis hit Hirt for an advance to finance the purchase of a trumpet. "Don't get that boy no trumpet," Davis interrupted. "It's too hard. Let him play something else...
...space help prepare a man to be President of the U.S.? This question of heroics was raised for Senator John Glenn the other night in New York City when all the candidates were strutting their stuff at a Democratic forum. Glenn got sore, correctly reading in the question the faint taunt that military men may not be quite deep enough for the Oval Office. The Senator won the night by reminding his audience that he had been "representing the future of this country" in those years. He also took a swipe at New York's Governor Mario Cuomo...
...Moscow newspaper Sovetskaya Rossiya declared. "The United States has demonstrated to the world its incompetence as the country responsible for the headquarters of the United Nations." And at the U.N., many an American friend had to admit that for once, the commentary in this polemical journal struck a faint chord of truth. How could the Soviets put the United States on the defensive before the international community just three weeks after a Russian jet ruthlessly destroyed a passenger airliner with 61 Americans aboard? The answer lies in the unfortunate actions and words of the Reagan Adminsitration following the KAL shooting...
...thoroughly has ideology taken over that the possibility of reasonable change that comes from young people succeeding their elders is faint. This deep-seated ideology, combined with the perception on the part of whites that Black, majority rule would mean their peril, makes the odds for peaceful reform slim indeed...
...college students of a new, powerful but poisonous brain stimulant called Benzedrine last week kept college directors of health in dithers of worry. Cases of over-dosage have been uncovered at the Universities of Minnesota, Wisconsin and Chicago. Elsewhere students who, while cramming for final examinations, collapse, faint, develop insomnia, or show a slowed pulse rate are under suspicion of using the substance. They call it "pep pills...