Word: jam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What is the solution to the traffic jam? CAAdministrator Frederick B. Lee, a crack pilot who during World War II literally wrote the military's book for instrument flying, thinks the answer lies in 1) better position finders on the ground and in the air, and 2) better communications between airports and pilots. By thus extending the range of the aerial police, traffic jams can be stopped before they develop. A basic need on the ground is long-range radar equipment, a high-cost item that only a small percentage of U.S. airports now has. CAA's proposal...
When people try to figure out Dave Brubeck, the result is quite a psychological jam session. "The reason Brubeck is great," says a business associate, "is that he was one guy who knew what he wanted and kept after it." Says his wife Iola: "He's a guy who is very tolerant of other people. For that reason he's always attracted others to him, often lonely people." Says Dave's oldest brother Henry (a music educator in the Santa Barbara school system): "Dave always had my father's horse sense. When we boys were broke...
...help his father in his business, Dave studied to be a veterinarian at the College of the Pacific at Stockton, Calif. But he switched to music after one year. Dave and two roommates moved into a cellar they called "the bomb shelter," which was soon embroiled in a continual jam session. Dave began playing jazz piano in nightclubs. He also played on a weekly campus radio show whose co-director was a pretty sophomore named Iola Marie Whitlock. Dave stomped his feet so hard as he played that the noise almost drowned out the music, so she made him take...
...serenade what underrates and guests who stick around or who jam into Ivy, Cottage, Campus, and Tower, The Princetonian has contracted Billy Butterfield's band and singer Jane...
...enmity-the Air Force last year ordered jet pilots not to roar through the sonic barrier near populated areas. The ADC's chief, General Ben Chidlaw, put the problem to friendly Cartoonist Milton Caniff, whose syndicated (550 papers) Steve Canyon promptly got his jet base out of a jam with local townspeople. Last week, in Shotgun Wedding, ADC men read the even more instructive how-to-do-it story of a real but unnamed jet base commander (actually, Colonel Harry Shoup of Truax Field at Madison, Wis.). The story...