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...King toted a sax up to the 22nd-story roof garden above Benny's Manhattan House apartment for the fulfillment of a jazzman's dream. With Bhumibol and Benny were Gene Krupa on the skins, Teddy Wilson on the piano, Urbie Green on the trombone, Jonah Jones on trumpet, Red Norvo on vibes. The King stood them toe-to-toe for two hours, paid his royal respects to The Sheik of Araby (in 17 eardrumming choruses), savored Honeysuckle Rose, swung low On the Sunny Side of the Street. Near session's end, Benny decorated him with...
...prince or pugilist, the underwater world stirs strange rapture. Writers of ages past, from the author of the Book of Jonah to Matthew Arnold, few of whom had ever been under water in their lives, have been inspired to imaginative fantasies about life in the depths. One modern writer who has been there is Clare Boothe Luce, playwright turned diplomat. In a memorably lyrical series for SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, she reported her experiences: "What fishes like flowers, what stones like trees. The coral reefs are a golden girdle of dead and living cities, which dwarf in their age and beauty...
...last, in 1940, found most of its greatest treasures, such as the tomb of Count Folch of Cardona's family with its 16th century bas-relief (opposite), had been mutilated. A superb object of contemplation even now, the relief symbolizes life after death through the story of Jonah and the whale. Jonah is shown spewed up from the whale's belly onto the life-strewn shore...
Died. Zora Neale Hurstoh, 57, Florida-born Negro author who explored the world of Negro folklore and magic in remote parts of the South and the West Indies, celebrated the big trials and small triumphs of the Southern Negro in a series of novels (Jonah's Gourd Vine, Seraph on the Suwanee) without succumbing to bitterness; in Fort Pierce...
...Dead Sea, customers will float in glass-bottom boats and look down upon Sodom and Gomorrah. A dark journey through the thoracic cavity of Jonah's whale will end up in a wild slide down the monster's tongue. Camels will clunk along through Egypt's Valley of the Kings, taking clients to the pyramids. Donkeys will bear the weight of multitudes from Nazareth to Jerusalem...