Word: jazzed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Enjoyed your April 27 article on Larry Adler. My husband and I saw him at the "hungry i" in San Francisco, and were interested to note that the audience, composed mainly of young people, was enthusiastic about his jazz and blues, but it took the classics to bring down the house...
...outside consultants are called in to study specialized problems such as transportation; a talent scout combs the show business world for new acts. (Harrah's has long since learned to vary its shows by the clock-organ music from 6 a.m. until noon, building to wild, brassy jazz when things heat up after midnight.) All Bill Harrah's dealers, half of whom are women, are trained in his own school. None of them are allowed to smoke, drink or chew gum on duty; careful research has even chosen what Harrah considers to be the most effective bad-breath...
Kraft Music Hall (NBC, 9-9:30 p.m.)*Uncle Millie's last show of the season, uplifted by Carl Sandburg's return for more Poems to Play Jazz...
...uncaring and undiscriminating, seeking only to assuage a deep-down itch. His friend, Harry Steiner, is escaping from his middle-class Bronx past, from the squares back home, from his own terrible insecurity. They dig the easy life, the life of least resistance, the life of escape via jazz, junk, drink...
...George's Church, in London's working-class Camberwell district, Anglican Father Geoffrey Beaumont followed prayers for a new bishop with another: "Let us pray for Terry Dene, a young man who has been very ill." Father Beaumont, already mildly celebrated for his use of jazz during sacred services (TIME, April 1, 1957), explained: "Terry Dene represents the sort of thing I want to bring into my church...