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...arrangers in the jazz of the past few years only one name need be mentioned: Gil Evans. His gifts go far beyond mere orchestration, as the Porgy and Bess album with Miles, or his own band on Impulse A-4 reveal. Bill Russo is an equally talented writer for large ensembles, a lonely figure who deeply believes that seriousness and self-conscious composing can be brought to jazz material. I strongly recommend The World of Alcina (Atlantic 1241) and School of Rebellion (Roulette 52063) if you are willing to listen carefully and then re-listen. The same might be said...
...Hank Hatch and Tom Boone are both able men at right half; Roy Williams and Billy Taylor will most likely share the left half spot. Chuck Reed, defensive specialist at fullback, may be changed to left halfback for offensive duty. Fullback is anybody's, and could go to seniors Gil Bamford, Dave Ward, or Stan Greenspan, or possibly to sophomore Bill Grana. Any one of the ten fullbacks returning next month could...
...smell of money clung especially to the person of handsome Senator Gil Puyat, 53, whose family fortune is estimated at $17 million, and who deals in mines, lumber, furniture and oil. Puyat's campaign manager assured the popeyed delegates-many of whom were provincials on their first visit to the capital-that the Senator will devote three years' income, or $4,500,000, to election expenses if he is nominated for Vice President. In the hotel lobbies, smiling Puyat leaders reportedly passed out 100-peso bills ($50). Happy delegates carousing at the lavish Bayside nightclub had their checks...
...Once the brightest pitching prospect in the American League, Cleveland's Herb Score was only 23 when he won 20 games in 1956. Next season Score was struck in the right eye by a line drive off the bat of Yankee Infielder Gil McDougald. Doctors saved his sight, but Score never regained his old form. Inclined to wildness, fastball Pitcher Score was traded to the Chicago White Sox last year. Last week he was farmed out to San Diego in the Pacific Coast League. Said White Sox Manager Al Lopez: "There is nothing wrong with Herb...
...them race in the twilight at a windless Harvard Stadium and Gunder Haag's 4:05.3 mile record, set in 1943 against Gil Dodds and Bill Hulse, would more than likely go by the boards...