Word: fergusons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. John Donald Ferguson, 74, editor of the Milwaukee Journal from 1943 to 1961, who, with its late publisher Harry Grant, built the Journal into one of the Midwest's biggest, richest and most respected papers; of head injuries sustained in a fall; in Milwaukee. Ferguson believed that a paper should be responsible for every word it prints-and so he banned all syndicated columnists, snorting that they print "the yakety-yak that fills the room after the fourth dry martini...
...MERRY MUSES OF CALEDONIA by Robert Burns, edited by James Barke, Sydney Goodsir Smith, J. Delancey Ferguson. 224 pages. Putnam...
Also elected were: Stephen H. Goodwin '64, business manager; William R. Ferguson '65, poetry editor; Richard M. Travis '65, prose editor; Philip H. Heckscher '65, review editor; Carl F. Nathan '66, managing editor; Kevin Lewis '65, assistant business manager; and Elisabeth A. Polk '65, secretary...
...Maynard Ferguson, 35, plays the most complex and modern arrangements of any big band since Kenton's, though Ferguson sometimes swamps his sidemen with his outer-space approach to the trumpet. Every so often, like Kirk Douglas in Young Man with a Horn, he gets up and tries for the groovy sound of an ambulance siren. But most of the time the boys roll along smoothly in spite...
Last week Ferguson and his boys were back from a four-week tour of 24 campuses. Hamp was at Manhattan's Café Metropole, where the band is strung out behind the bar like a police lineup. Woody and his men were trudging through the sticks playing just the kind of one-nighters that build character and make big bands dear to novelists: Columbus, Neb., to Grand Island, Neb.; Grand Island to Fort Riley, Kans.; Fort Riley to Pryor, Okla...