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...Europe and in every country in West and Central Africa except Ghana. When the "Okayistes" travel in Africa, the President of the host country often places a plane at their disposal. In every capital, crowds of Africans too poor to get inside the club where they are playing jam the dusty, unpaved streets outside and dance to the faint strains of their music. On one recent tour, Franco received 3,000 marriage proposals from love-smitten African girls...
Caught en route in a traffic jam, Scandalous John takes on a "hideously grinning" Buick with his bowie knife, and from then on things get worse. Author Gardner, 31, who lives on an island off Spain's Costa Brava, explains that his inspiration for this first novel was the question: "What would the American knight-errant be like and what would be his fate?" His answers seem to be Scandalous John's repeated cry, "I'm my own man," and his bloody end on a city sidewalk in a confrontation with an uncomprehending guardian of the sanitary...
Classical Jam Session. This season big-name musicians performing at the festival's full-dress evening productions began to treat the chamber-music series as a sort of classical jam session. Thomas Schippers, who conducted the Spoleto Messiah, stopped by to play piano duets with a series regular, John Browning. Last week Browning backed up U.S. Conductor Robert La Marchina (Traviata), who was up early for the sake of a tuneful Rachmaninoff piano-cello sonata. What's more, the musicians' enthusiasm for the series seems to be shared by an Italian concert public long uninterested in chamber...
...hire more Negroes and Puerto Ricans squatted in a roadway leading to Jones Beach on Long Island. Two groups managed to halt traffic for a few minutes at three different times, but cops hauled them bodily off the roadway before they could create a real New York-sized traffic jam...
...coin: since jazz is based upon improvisation and the inspiration of the moment, the environment in which the musicians play is bound to affect their music. The hospital-room atmosphere of a recording studio can help keep a musician's high spirits in check, just as a Monday-night jam session at Birdland can bring them...