Word: jo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Faculty of Arts and Sciences announced the award of the Philip Washburn Prize for 1957-58 to David Ted Roy '59 for his thesis entitled, "Kuo Mo-Jo: The Pre-Marxist Stage." The Prize is the income from the fund...
...down the nostalgic side of the street. Besides tootling what is still the sweetest clarinet this side of the '30s, Maestro Goodman husked It's Gotta Be This or That, was spelled by such other oldtimers as Trumpeter Harry James in King Porter Stomp, Singers Ella Fitzgerald, Jo Stafford and Ray Eberle. But it was not until Benny meshed with his old quintet (including Teddy Wilson on piano and Red Norvo thrumming the vibraphone) that Maestro Goodman seemed to hit his old stride in syncopation so well arranged that it sounded like real jazz improvisation. His big band...
Each of these four acted as if they had no confidence in the lines they were delivering, and felt that power and feeling could come only from histrionics. Frederick Morehouse and Jo Linch were more successful if only because they seemed to respect the words they spoke, and knew what they meant...
...Beat of My Heart (Tony Bennett, vocalist; Chico Hamilton, Art Blakey, Jo Jones, Billy Exiner, Candido, Sabu on drums; Columbia). Abetted chiefly by some wonderfully complex naked drum accompaniments, Singer Bennett launches his husky, finely pitched voice into an assortment of old favorites, makes them sound as strange and freshly minted as though they were written yesterday. The nervous, shifty-tempoed title song alone makes this one of the most intriguing vocal albums in months...
Adman Lasker at 64 plunged into the market, convinced that the world of advertising art had all along been drawing its ideas from the prime originators of modern painting. In the next eight years he amassed a spectacular collection ranging from an 1834 Corot to a 1950 Joán Miró. The results, shown by the 60 color plates of The Albert D. Lasker Collection (Simon & Schuster; $20), make one of the handsomest art books of the season...