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...Hampton, and they went Flying Home at the same dizzying speed as in the old days of the Benny Goodman Quartet. In the same hall on another night, the Herman Herd thundered once again as Woody Herman was reunited with such stars from his 1940s bands as Stan Getz, Flip Phillips and Red Norvo. At Carnegie Hall, the legendary Benny Carter led a group accurately labeled Swing Masters, including Veterans Harry Edison, Buddy Tate, Tyree Glenn and Jo Jones...
Last week in New York, Queens Democratic Leader Matthew Troy, an early McGovern backer, made it known that he was about to start a draft-Ted boom for the No. 2 slot; so Kennedy flip-flopped again. He telephoned Troy to call him off, and then issued the flat statement: "There are no circumstances under which I would accept a nomination for any national office this year...
...they fail to prepare students for the real world. There, "you don't always get paid off for doing the right thing, and you have to cope when you make a mistake." Without the ability to cope-or, as psychologists call it, "frustration tolerance"-both pigeons and people flip out when they come face to face with their own fallibility and the world's ingratitude...
Side Two features one song that sounds just like "Dead Flowers" and another cut that resembles but is vastly inferior to "Moonlight Mile." It is redeemed primarily by the presence of "Sweet Black Angel," the flip of the current single; it is one of the few things on the entire album that is worthy of the Stones...
...sound films. Barely touching on the newer possibilities, it reaches into silent comedy's vaudevillian traditions for many effects and gags. Then after his chair has been moved, or accidentally substituting soap for his neighbor's cheese) is just one mark of his genius. We know that he'll flip his rescuer into the water as he struggles to get out, and we laugh uproariously anyway. Chaplin brings off new twists in a drunk scene and plays those familiar cliches with such finesse that we have to love...