Word: horned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grand piano, his large head listing heavily to port, his horn rims and high forehead giving him a scholarly appearance. Before him stood four blowers on trumpet, trombone and saxophones, men whose personal styles seemed almost perfectly adapted to the Gulda idiom. During the evening's five half-hour sets they played a round dozen of Gulda's own compositions-pretty, slightly sentimental ditties with such names as Air from Other Planets, Dodo, Scruby, New Shoes-plus his arrangements of other men's tunes. Whatever the music, it had one mark of good jazz: it stimulated...
...Hole Truth. In Long Beach, Calif., arrested after he made off with a truckload of doughnuts, Sailor Robert Horn-stead, 22, told cops: "I don't know why I did it; I don't even like doughnuts...
Admiral Arleigh Burke, 54, blue eyes for the moment behind horn-rimmed glasses, looks past the curtains: on his maps, pinpointing every major warship and command, are the symbols of his Navy's revolution...
...Elliott Sextette (ABC-Paramount). A lightly swinging combo headed by versatile Virtuoso Elliott, heard here only on vibes and the mellophone. It is worth the price of admission ($3.98) to hear Jazz Me Blues bellowed on the mellophone, which is a country cousin of the French horn and sounds something like a trombone with a code in its doze...
Double Profits. Any serious U.S. businessman who wants to start a factory or a branch plant in Puerto Rico gets kingly treatment from Bootstrap. Under Administrator Teodoro ("Ted") Moscoso, a briefcase-toting man in horn-rimmed spectacles who flouts Latin tradition by working 70 hours a week, EDA can offer mouth-watering inducements. It will provide the businessman with labor from its big files of workers, trained in everything from pastry-baking to power-sewing by one of the world's largest vocational schools. It will build a plant and rent it to him. Moving to Puerto Rico will...