Word: goodman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...never heard of the quantum theory, etc., etc." Fifteen black people were killed in the state that year as a result of S.N.C.C. activity, Lester adds, but the only murdered black mentioned in the press was James Chancy, who was killed with white Civil Rights Workers Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner...
Apparently he did, for soon he was sitting in with top jazzmen in Greenwich Village. He was only 18 when Benny Goodman offered him a job in 1941. Powell says: "I did him the courtesy of accepting." Goodman remembers it a little differently: "He auditioned for me in a cubicle at my manager's office. He was so scared that I had to ask a secretary to help me decide whether he was any good-I couldn't tell." Anyway, that is the way that most people who know his name remember Powell-as a vital, imaginative soloist...
Died. Ziggy Elman, 54, self-taught trumpeter who kept the nation jumping during the swing era; in Los Angeles. Born Harry Finkelman, he changed his name after he signed with Benny Goodman in 1936, joined the Tommy Dorsey band in 1940, and after the war formed his own group. His signature tune, And the Angels Sing, which he adapted from a Jewish wedding dance, was the best-known piece in a musical bag filled with inventiveness...
...family is the American Fascism."-Paul Goodman...
...author who sports the name of the 18th century philosopher of capitalism and who gambols over the arcane and volatile ground of Wall Street and international finance? John Kenneth Galbraith pleads innocent. Is the Wall Street Journal perhaps sheltering an upstart? No. Impeccable leaks lead to George J. W. Goodman, 37, a former Rhodes scholar, novelist (The Wheeler Dealers), onetime writer for TIME and FORTUNE, and now editor of a journal for mutual-fund managers. A shade under medium height, conservatively sheared, dressed and spectacled, Goodman blends in perfectly with the traffic on Wall Street. He is the archetypal mild...