Word: gathering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...milestone in jazz history may well occur in Boston on Monday, March 12, when five of the greatest living Now Orleans jazzmen gather together at the Savoy Cafe. The world famous soprano saxophone star, Sidney Bechet, will open a four weeks engagement at the Massachusetts Avenue club with a new Dixieland Band featuring Pops Foster, Bunk Johnson, Hank Duncan, and Fred Moore. The Bechet quintet will also appear Monday night at 30 Huntington Avenue in a concert sponsored by the Boston Jazz Society. George Frazier, former CRIMSON columnist and present Theatre Editor of Life magazine, will be in town...
...Army trucks, carrying no specially sworn Army "constables," roared into Drummondville, a French Canadian tex tile center (pop. 16,000) some 70 miles northeast of Montreal. Quickly the raiders fanned out, swept into crowded hotels and taverns. Word of what was happening spread through the city. Crowds began to gather...
...Legends have begun to gather around starched Lieut. General John C. H. ("Courthouse") Lee, West Pointer, Army engineer, and boss of Army Service Forces in Europe. Two stories now going the rounds...
...long marooned. An Army B-25 took him aboard, carried him to New York City's LaGuardia Field. There a Marine Corps pilot picked him up, delivered him safe & sound to Washington. The pilot called the White House and someone sent a station wagon to gather up his passenger...
...Quigg, United Press,' I said. The Dr. Livingstone of Bilibid Prison grasped my hand fervently. 'Weissblatt, United Press,' he replied." No one in Manila begrudged Correspondent Quigg this bit of Richard Harding Davis exuberance. For in Manila last week, the men who gather news were themselves news, and many a correspondent felt personal as well as professional excitement. At least five who entered the city with the conquering troops had witnessed American defeat in the Philippines three years ago. And from Japanese prison camps came eleven correspondents, emaciated and ailing, with the pent-up knowledge of three...