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...typical tear. "Get this crate rolling," he ordered. Chauffeur Howard Risner nosed the sleek black Cadillac into the moving traffic and headed toward Chicago's O'Hare Airport. "Shoot the works," said Finley. Risner hit a button, and downtown Chicago echoed to the Caddie's musical horn. "Now the siren," demanded Finley. A muted wail sent other cars skittering for the curb. Finley switched on a loudspeaker hidden beneath the hood and began broadcasting a stream of chatter to startled pedestrians. "Hey, Howard!" he exulted. "Now we're really going. Hit that horn again...
Eddle "Lockjaw" Davis. Davis was born to play the tenor sax, it seems. Eight months after he bought his first horn, he was playing in Monroe's Uptown House in Hariem where the greatest jazz musicians of the time would match one another in all-night "cutting" sessions. Davis withdrew from the music scene in the early sixties, but he came back after a year to become a soloist and road manager for the Count Basic Band. Now on his own, he puts down a blues-based, funky sound that has charged listeners for three decades. At Sandy's Jazz...
...recording of Coitrane's great "Love Supreme," and right after the ending of that piece's first movement the disc jockey did a fade-in to Sanders's "Upper Egypt." It was one of the few times when you could not tell the difference between Trane's horn and another's. The highest compliment...
...missile installations at Berbera are only the tip of the Soviet iceberg on the hot horn of Africa. Over the past several years, the Russians have transformed Somalia's 17,000-man armed forces into some of the strongest on the continent. Of the 3,000 or so Russians in Somalia today, fully 1,400 are assigned to the army and air force. The Somali army, less than half the size of neighboring Ethiopia's, now has far superior firepower-and the largest tank force south of the Sahara. The air force boasts a squadron of Ilyushin...
...home on the Charles this weekend the 'Cliffe sailers also won the Coach Alumnae Regatta for Women in which each team has to enter a student, and a coach or an alumna. Junior Sarah Herrick, Kathy Angell and ski team coach Barbie Grant represented Radcliffe. Mike Horn, who coaches both squads, couldn't sail because he was with the men's team...