Word: garnering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First, balloon-shaped Meade Lux Lewis and Pete Johnson faced each other across grand pianos. Then came Erroll Garner, and finally big Art Tatum, his almost sightless eyes turned to the wall. If Birdland, Manhattan's midtown mecca of jive, wanted to put on a representative "parade" of jazz pianists last week, it could hardly have found four ivory ticklers with more varying styles...
...Garner's "modern" style was not so slick, but he managed to make the others seem dated just the same. He treated happy Birdlanders to big, chunky chords crammed full of notes, then showed them how he could switch to rainbows of glassy melody and fantasy. As he played, he mouthed a word that looked something like "Ooom...
...Uvalde, Texas, Veep Alben Berkley called on ex-Veep John Nance Garner...
...first time in twelve years. After a barbecue picnic on the lawn, Barkley, 74, beamed tirelessly for the photographers and said, "Well, John, if they didn't ask for more pictures, we would know we were slipping." Host Garner, 83, smiled again. Yukio Ozaki, 93, onetime mayor of Tokyo, who sent the cherry trees to Washington-as a good will gesture some 40 years ago, surprised his doctors by getting up from his "deathbed" to sit on his veranda and write a little poem in memory of the gift. The poem...
...Uvalde, Texas, former Vice President John Nance Garner, 83, invited the city commissioners to a meeting. Said he: "I'm not a manana man, and I want to do something now." Then he deeded to the city his two-story home with six square blocks of land, to be used "as a library or a museum or any way the city wants." The gift was in memory of his wife Ettie, who died...