Word: gatherers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...group of musicians in Vienna, wrote out jazz-style counterpoint for them and made a series of broadcasts. American Jazz Buff John Hammond, who had a significant part in the careers of Basie and Benny Goodman, listened to off-the-air recordings and flipped for joy. He helped Gulda gather his combo in the U.S., got him booked into Birdland and also for Newport's American Jazz Festival next week...
...faith, quit you like men, be strong,'-this shall lead me to the last. It is my confirmation verse . . . There are evil people everywhere, but also many good people. Do you know, I have often thought of our conversations in which you sought to encourage me to gather more spiritual than earthly goods. How right you were! Where have all earthly treasures gone? Vanished like a cloud of vapor . . . I do not fear death. I fear it only as it affects you and our beloved sweet children...
Since the CRIMSON first planned to do this supplement in February, editors have traveled more than 10,000 miles in the South to gather first-hand information for it. We have not attempted to give here a comprehensive picture of the situation; we rather have tried to spotlight certain local developments and specific problems of the highly complex question of Negro education...
...Thus, a scant six weeks ago, the U.S. signaled a major new direction in foreign policy. By last week the State Department had set up a six-man staff that was hard at work translating Dulles' challenging words into some specific proposals. The U.S. aim is to gather the 15 NATO nations into a new regional association under the U.N. Charter, roughly similar to the Western Hemisphere's Organization of American States, equipped to deal with such common political problems as Cyprus and the Saar. The net effect will be to advance President Eisenhower's long-term...
When nearly a score of American Presidents gather, as they will June 25 and 26 in Panama, who gets the presidential suite at the leading hotel? Must troops at the airport fire a 21-gun salute for each chief executive on the afternoon of arrival-as many as 420 eardrum-blasting booms altogether? Last week Host Panama, having successfully paved the way for what will probably be history's biggest gathering of heads of state, tackled the touchy protocol problems...