Word: gigged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among Manhattan's most successful: ¶ Cafe Bohemia, a room in Greenwich Village that for years specialized with indifferent success in beer and sagging chorines until the late Jazzman Charlie ("Yardbird") Parker one evening offered to "do a gig" on his alto sax to square a bar debt. The Bird died before he could make good, but the Bohemia nevertheless plastered its walls with record jackets and went jazz. A favorite hangout of off-duty jazzmen, it also attracts the earnest and informed young jazz buffs in heavy spectacles and flamboyant shirts who sit for hours nursing drinks...
...technological unemployment, Desk Set has been expanded by a sizable pigeonhole, in which Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy intermittently bill and coo. Actress Hepburn is the head researcher for a TV network, the kind of girl who always knows the score but seldom seems to make one-especially with Gig Young, a rising young executive who can't seem to remember he is supposed to be falling for Katie. But then along comes Tracy, a "methods engineer" who seems determined to fire the heroine in both senses of the word. He steals her job and gives...
...Married. Gig Young, 38 (real name: Byron Barr), screen (The Desperate Hours) and stage (Oh, Men! Oh, Women!) actor; and Elizabeth Montgomery, 23, daughter of Actor-TV Impresario Robert Montgomery; both for the second time; in Las Vegas...
...Potomac School, which is now a regular part of the curriculum. The principal of Delaware's Bridgeville Consolidated School reported that his visiting Scot was "so delightful" that even his kilt was accepted "without gibes from the males and with downright enthusiasm by the females." In Gig Harbor, Wash, a high-school student won an award in the Betty Crocker "American Homemaker of Tomorrow" contest, took her British home-economics teacher along on the winning trip to Washington, D.C., Williamsburg and Philadelphia. "It was," said the Briton later, "one of those things that could only have happened in this...
...Count Basie's band, Billie began to find out about life and "ofays."* Life: "Living on the road with a band, nobody had time to sleep alone, let alone with somebody . . . We'd pull into a town . . . take a long look at the bed, go play the gig [date], come back and look at the bed again, and then get on the bus." Ofays: "They told Basie I was too yellow to sing with all the black men in his band. Somebody might think I was white . . . So they got special dark grease paint and told...