Word: jam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...noise, regular jazz and bop houses are supplemented tonight by weekly Second Avenue jam sessions at the Stuyvesant Casino, 9th St., and the Central Plaza, 6th; last week and fairly regularly Bill Davison, Rex Stewart, George Wettling, Wellman Braud, and Joe Sullivan graced the former, while Hot Lips Page, Willie the Lion Smith, Big Chief Moore, and Benny Morion livened up the latter...
...last week (see WAR IN ASIA), eight correspondents parachuted down with them. Reported 36-year-old Robert Vermillion of the United Press: "It took the Communists by surprise; it took me by surprise too ... I was the last man to jump from the first plane . . . and anticipated no traffic jam in the air. But I ran into one anyway. About 20 feet above the ground, a paratrooper falling faster than I dropped into my parachute canopy and collapsed it around my shoulders. As a result I plunged the last 20 feet without any help from the parachute." Traffic victim Vermillion...
...doubtful whether even Author Williams cares much. He is much more credible when writing about those beautiful young men. One of his liveliest scenes shows Paolo getting himself a thrill from the ministrations of his barber. "The sensuality of that hour," Williams notes enthusiastically, "was exquisite as the jam of the gods...
When it was over the audience paid Sir Thomas Beecham one of the greatest tributes over seen in Symphony Hall. Ordinarily at the end of an afternoon concert, no matter how good the performance, everyone rushed for the exits in an attempt to escape the traffic jam. Yesterday, however, almost everybody stayed, applauding in a standing ovation that lasted so long the eminent British conductor finally played an encore...
Back in the days when the Crimson Stompers were getting organized, they held their practice jam sessions down on Coolidge Hill Road behind Stillman Infirmary at the home of Charles H. Taylor, professor of History. And they had a cornetist sitting in with the band whose playing Walter H. Gifford, Jr. '52, drummer and manager of the group, describes as a "mean cornet a la Max Kaminsky." The horn-player's name was Sargent Kennedy '28, Registrar of Harvard College...