Word: forte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wild Bill Davison holds the fort at Eddie Condon's 3rd Street hideaway, with Edmond Hall and Gene Schroeder in the band and Ralph Sutton working the intermissions. Buck Clayton, Joe Bushkis, and Art Tatum are at New York's new jazz spot. The Embers, 161 East 54th. Pea Wee Erwin is at Nick's, at 10th and Seventh, and Conrad Janis is at, Ryan's the last holdout of the once famous 52nd Street...
...Force) will be under the administration of the Tactical Air Command, it will, in effect, give airborne outfits a separate air force of their own for the first time. Pilots and crews of the Eighteenth will train and work hand in glove with the Sand Airborne Division at nearby Fort Bragg, N.C. on the highly complex problems of airloading men and equipment and dropping them on a pinpoint target on split-second schedules...
...airborne forces have adopted faster troop planes, the opening shock has become more & more of a problem. At the Army's Airborne Center at Fort Bragg, N.C. this week, the Army Field Forces are testing a new parachute which may all but eliminate it. The new T-10 chute has a canopy two feet larger (30 feet) than the chute now in use (which slows the rate of descent) and, instead of being circular, is shaped like a soup bowl with an extended skirt around its edge (which cuts down on the pendulum-like motion of the parachute...
Boston 90, Fort Wayne...
Philadelphia 88, Fort Wayne...