Word: hep
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hep. But hep is no longer quite a hip word...
...jobs, soon began teaching. It was after bebop came along, in the early '40s, that Tristano's new ideas took form. He made a few recordings for Capitol; none sold more than a few thousand copies, but Lennie's name got around. Some records reached hep listeners in Europe, where he is now an advance-guard favorite...
Proceedings began with dignity, with Senators in clean tropical suits looking urbane and trading splendid compliments. But there was an occasional waspish exchange. One was set off by Michigan's Senator Blair Moody, the newspaperman who succeeded Arthur Vandenberg. New, talkative and not yet hep to all the club customs, Moody triumphantly disclosed how a colleague had voted in a closed committee. Indiana's Homer Capehart, Moody said, had raised his hand in favor of throwing out all wage and price controls. The outraged Capehart did not think it was necessary "to have persons snooping to see whether...
Rebel knows enough music to play the piano and sing passably, but she has had to learn or invent a whole new vocabulary while spinning records for hep soldiers. Now a saxophone is always a "goldenrod," playing a trumpet is "scraping the ceiling," drums are "kettles" and violins are "angel music." When not talking about hot & sweet records, Rebel tries to strike a fine balance between sentiment and bathos, because "our purpose isn't to make them lonesome, it's to make them happy...
Like the handful of other coaches who have stuck to the single-wing, Princeton Coach Charley Caldwell long had to listen to alumni and fellow coaches who wanted to know when he was going to get hep to the T. This season Caldwell has been hearing less & less of that question. His single-wing team has averaged 440 yards a game this year, is still unbeaten and, with Cornell out of the way and only Yale ahead to threaten it seriously, has its best chance in 15 years of ending the season unbeaten...