Word: gins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Solos by an Old Master (Joe Sullivan, piano; Riverside LP). A Chicago jazzman of the old school plays old favorites, from I Cover the Waterfront to Gin Mill Blues, with a gentle fervor...
...come. In Montgomery, Ala., where the Confederacy was born, obdurate Negroes persisted in their 3½-month-old boycott of a bus company that apparently was prepared to go bankrupt rather than abandon Jim Crow. In Sumner, Miss., an all-white jury decided that a white cotton-gin operator was not guilty of murder when he fired two charges of buckshot and one of squirrel shot into the body of a Negro gas-station attendant with whom he had an argument. In Washington, Texan Lyndon Johnson, majority leader of the U.S. Senate, felt obliged to announce that...
Dreyfus quickly developed a connoisseur's eye for the small bronzes, rarely over gin. high, that Renaissance noblemen once placed in their studies as familiar religious objects or models of classic statuary. To these Dreyfus added a collection of the medals that wealthy Italians had struck off for special occasions, and of the small, exquisitely molded bas-relief plaquettes often worn as neck pendants. In pursuit of perfection until his death in 1914, Dreyfus sometimes owned as many as five or six versions of the same medal in succession, settling only for the most flawless. The result of this...
...Tuesdays and Wednesdays are dedicated to practice, mostly with the short irons. (Without the heft to wallop man-sized drives off the tee, the girls have to nibble at par by polishing their approach shots. Their chip shots are deadly, and a delight to watch.) Evenings, for all the gin rummy games or the inevitable cocktail parties, the real pros still find it hard to relax. Given an open stretch of carpet, they are likely to grab a club and practice putting or swing at an imaginary ball...
...first glance, Graham Greene seems to have changed his theme. His recent novels-The Power and the Glory, The Heart of the Matter, The End of the Affair-were religious dramas about the human soul struggling amid gin-or-tea trivialities between salvation and damnation. In his latest novel, he writes of individuals who stand for worlds and nations-the U.S., Britain, Asia-struggling amid blood-and-opium enormities between relative degrees of misrule. Yet in a sense, the heart of the matter is still the same. Whatever uncozy corner Greene chooses for his settings, whether West Africa, Mexico, Indo...