Word: featherers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Colorado's Rocky Mountain brooks. Restlessly, he watched sunlight sparkle on fish hauled into nearby boats, then cracked orders by radiotelephone for his escort craft, full of ever-hovering Secret Service, to find out what bait the others were using. A neighboring cruiser shared its successful white feather jigs, and another provided wire lines for deeper trolling, but nothing worked until, on a tip messaged from a third helpful sportsman, the President ran into a sliver of luck: off Sandy Point, using a nickel-plated spoon, he hooked a single 20-in., 4-lb. bonito, hardly worth...
...scale bestseller). Already, at least 14 American artists have recorded an Americanized version of the song with a new title, Volare (To Fly), and new lyrics that bear as little resemblance to the original as they do to poetry. Sample: "Just like birds of a feather, a rainbow together we'll find." When they call their favorite disk jockey, U.S. fans hardly know what to ask for. But whether the title comes out "Domingo," "Nelly Blue" or "Blue Nell Rides a Blue Pinto," even a monolingual jock knows enough to spin...
With Lynn Fontaine in the title role, the play ran on Broadway for months, and "Dulcy" became a household word. But tastes and standards change, and the play today is little more than a feather-weight farce and a historical curiosity...
...Lion Roars (Willie "The Lion" Smith; Dot). In an interview with Critic Leonard Feather, Harlem's most-storied stride pianist rambles through some richly colored reminiscences about the good, bold days of jazz. (Willie's earliest jazz school: the brickyards of Haverstraw, N.Y.). The Lion roars too much and plays too little, but a couple of his own compositions-Echo of Spring, with its lacy embroidery over a rolling bass, and Zig-Zag, with its propulsive drive-are worth the price of the album...
...varsity was three-quarters of a length behind the Elis and had over a length lead on Pennsylvania and Syracuse when Lawrence caught a reverse feather crab which knocked him out of the shell. Jim McClennen, rowing seven, led the crew for the closing stretch...