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...Meade Lux Lewis. But Jazz Great Gerry Mulligan's attacks on baritone sax are crisp and clean, and Brubeck and Mulligan bob and glide together like Astaire and Rogers doing the Big Apple. For a finale, Mulligan, the three Brubecks and nine assorted sidemen are likely to jam for wondrous minutes on something like Mulligan's Tune for an Unfinished Woman...
...might have been a blissful, tax-deductible working vacation -if only so many of the speakers had not kept repeating that the legal profession is in a bit of a jam. Washington Attorney Charles Rhyne, also a former A.B.A. president, pronounced the meeting "a panorama of the defects and deficiencies in American justice...
Giving the cleaning ladies the night off, Radio City Music Hall opened its doors at midnight for a four-hour jam session that saw Ben Webster, Zoot Sims, and Milt Jackson tapping toes where the Rockettes usually toe-up to tap. Uptown at Yankee Stadium, the likes of Ray Charles, Dave Brubeck and Gerry Mulligan made a far more winning team than the stadium's usual inhabitants...
...seven innings O'Malley was equally impressive. In his first seven innings the sophomore righthander allowed only two hits. He pitched himself out of a jam in the 15th inning, and had retired the first two batters in the 16th before a walk and a single set the stage for the three-run blast by Ihlenberg. The Husky third baseman was five-for-six on the day, and figured in five of his team's eight runs. He also got two hits in Monday's game...
Smokey was right about one thing, though, he got us out of that jam. The Commissioner called off the Series and nobody won. Of course the world was pretty messed up back then, so it didn't really matter. Hitler had just gone into Poland, and everyone knew that we would have to go over there to straighten things...