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...sources. Having coffee with "Glit" Shields of the Columbia, he noticed that Shields had a clarinet with him, was on his way to a teen-age hop to play at intermission. "I asked him if he needed a piano player, and he said 'Great.'" Over some Benny Goodman tunes, Lamont wangled a trip on the Columbia. "Glit had me playing the mainsheet like a yoyo, and what I thought would be a free ride ended up a workout...
...father, a riveter, lost his eyesight in an accident, the family moved to the island of Oahu and settled in Makiki, a section of Honolulu. Arthur's introduction to music was on a toy marimba. Each day after school, Arthur's father put some old Benny Goodman records on the phonograph and locked Arthur in his room with orders to "play along with the records for the rest of the day." Arthur "hated it" but he also learned: "I mastered every [Lionel] Hampton solo...
...Balcony. There were also less-global affairs: a visit from Benny Goodman, reporting on his Russian jazz tour; a trip to the bedside of Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, 79, who is recovering from a stroke; a White House meeting with a North Carolina admirer, aged 8, who is suffering from a heart deformity; and an enjoyable interlude with 24 blind teen-agers from California, who peppered him with questions. "Are you going to run for office again?" "I'm thinking about it.'' "Do you think your children will follow in your footsteps?" "I hope...
...feature of Thompson's tenure in Moscow was the growth of the U.S.-Soviet cultural exchange program. As an ambassador, this brought him new opportunities as well as new problems; almost anybody might turn up in Moscow, from Vice President Nixon to the New York Philharmonic, from Benny Goodman to Shirley MacLaine, all requiring Thompson's care. One of his few embarrassments came on U.S. Election Day 1960, when he was asked by U.S. correspondents visiting his residence which candidate he favored. Diplomat Thompson refused to say. "Why, Daddy," interrupted his nine-year-old daughter Jenny, "you know...
...jazz fan, I believe," grinned touring Bandleader Benny Goodman, as he shook hands with another guest at the U.S. Embassy's Fourth of July reception in Moscow. But Benny dug the wrong cat. Arching his back, Nikita Khrushchev replied: "No, I don't like Goodman music. I like good music." All jazz started off "boo-boo-boo-boo-boo," complained the Soviet Premier, setting it to his own clopping time by dancing a jig on the front lawn of Spaso House. Russian or American, it was all Chinese to him, and so was that other whatchamacallit, abstract...