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...jazz's crowned heads, Duke Ellington, was, nor an instrumental virtuoso on the order of the Earl, "Fatha" Hines. Rather, the Count's talent lay in his knack for organizing the tightest, swingingest bands in the land; populating them with some of the best sidemen ever to grace a dance floor or a recording studio, including Tenor Sax Player Lester Young, Trumpeter Buck Clayton, Drummer Jo Jones and Blues Singer Jimmy Rushing; and later backing the likes of Ella Fitzgerald and Frank Sinatra. Although his elliptically eloquent, spare style of playing, influenced by Fats Waller, gave his band...
...dance numbers are, with some redeeming exceptions, ordinary. The pleasing, while not terribly strenuous, choreography is simply not performed with a consistent amount of verve of procision. While the kicks in the briefs can-can line are neither high nor in union, the chorus girls project for more life, grace and sex appeal in the sport aneous dancing at a party lates in the dramatic action...
...being so blatant about it. It lacks the effete liberalism Harvard usually packages its filth in. After Hitler, dare we ask, what next? A Torquemada scholarship in Jewish Affairs?. . . a P.W. Botha fellowship in Race Relations?...invite Charles Manson to lecture on the symbiosis of religions and murder?...grace the Business School with a bust of Robert Vesco...
Some companies, though, continue to produce reports elegant enough to grace the finest coffee tables. The Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette investment firm, whose profits jumped 32% last year, issued a 64-page document filled with pictures of historical artifacts and featuring a painting of Alexander Hamilton on the cover. But Wisconsin Securities, a Milwaukee investment firm, went one better. Along with its 30-page report, the company sent each of its 235 shareholders a 10-oz. can of ginger cookies made by one of the companies in which it has invested...
...Globe is best when assaying politics, at which it has few peers outside New York and Washington, and sports, at which it may have no peers at all. Editorial Page Editor Martin Nolan has given the opinion columns the same grace and punch he gave the paper's Washington bureau, and Washington Reporters Tom Oliphant and Curtis Wilkie are highly respected. Baseball Writer Peter Gammons may be that sport's most influential daily chronicler. Among other assets: Columnist Ellen Goodman, Humorist Diane White, Music Critic Richard Dyer and Editorial Writer Kirk Scharfenberg...