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HELLO LOUIS! (Epic). Cornetist Bobby Hackett, freed from the treacly bondage of those Jackie Gleason albums of a few years back, pays tribute to Satchmo the composer. Louis Armstrong's compositions have always been overshadowed by his virtuoso performances of other people's work, though he has written several hundred pieces, among the better known being Gate Mouth Blues, Brother Bill and Hear Me Talkin' to Ya. Hackett proves to have a real feeling for the Armstrong style, and his cornet solos, backed by authentic-sounding tuba, saxophone, banjo, trombone, piano and drums, are incisive and bouncy...
...labor leaders go, Walter Reuther and Thomas Gleason are about as different as possible: one the smooth, articulate head of the tightly organized auto workers' union, the other the abrasive president of the rebellious and racket-tainted longshoremen. But both Reuther and Gleason insist on the importance of those vexatious laws of the laborer's life, the work rules...
Gang Warfare. While Reuther's U.A.W. wanted to eliminate some work, Gleason's heavily featherbedded longshoremen wanted to preserve some. Five times in the past eleven years they have gone on strike, and they have adamantly resisted shipowners' attempts to reduce the size of cargo gangs despite increasing automation. This year, backed by a presidential commission's findings that gangs could easily be cut from 20 men to 17, the owners offered a 34? hourly boost if the longshoremen would agree to a reduction. Last week the union answered by calling a strike that tied...
...materializes in the guise of Soc Sci 116, students of Aristophanes savor Greek 105a, and dilettantes carefully avoid the intricacies of wave phenomena unwound in Physics 112a. Juan Marichal caps this tour de force of the liberal arts with History 175b, the intellectual history of Latin America, while Professor Gleason shows "how the foundations of real variable theory can be based on naive set theory in Math...
Born. To Geraldine Gleason, 25, elder daughter of TV's indestructible Fat Man, and John Chutuk, 26, Manhattan talent agent: their first child, a son; in Manhattan...