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Newport-New England. Friday: War, Ray Charles, Herbie Mann, the Staple Singers, and Billy Paul. Saturday: Donny Hathaway, B.B. King, Freddie Hubbard, Charles Mingus, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, and Stevie Wonder. At Fenway Park, July 27 and 28. Tickets...
...that considered, this year's local festival shapes up well indeed. The key evening is Saturday, because Stevie Wonder and B.B. King more or less top a bill of giants: Mingus, trumpeter Freddie Hubbard and his Quintet, Rahsaan Roland Kirk and the Vibration Society, and mellow man Donny Hathaway. The problem of course is Fenway Park, cozy for baseball, but cavernous for jazz. I saw McCarthy there in '68 and the sound was rotten. This is 1973 though, and when Led Zep can fill Kezar Stadium in San Francisco, while making sure the sound is adequate, well times done changed...
...names and events in the festival included Donny Hathaway, Roberta Flack and Stevie Wonder in soul-oriented concerts in Shea Stadium. In an entirely different vein, the first day of the festival saw a reunion after 30 years of the Benny Goodman quartet, consisting of Goodman, Lionel Hampton, Gene Krupa and Teddy Wilson. Expatriate black author James Baldwin, returning to America from France, narrated his biography, The Life and Times of Ray Charles, in a special tribute. Other special festival recognitions went to Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald, the late Art Tatum and the late Louis Armstrong...
...Howard Hathaway Aiken, professor of Applied Mathematics Emeritus and a pioneer in computer research, died in his sleep early Wednesday morning in St. Louis...
...help in getting special federal loans. The legal assistance proved so beneficial that the Office of Emergency Preparedness and the A.B.A.'s Young Lawyers Section have begun organizing a nationwide network of volunteer attorney groups. "Disaster victims are often in shock for six to eight weeks," says Harry Hathaway, chairman of the A.B.A.'s Young Lawyers Section. "Sometimes a lawyer is needed merely to perform a hand-holding function during a time of difficult decisions." Even so, there is something faintly saddening about finding that a flood victim's situation has become so complex that where once...