Word: jonesism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dave Liebman and his group Lookout Farm will be staying the week at the Jazz Workshop. When Liebman first started attracting attention with some fine tenor work on Elvin Jones's Live at the Lighthouse, Jones had the audacity to claim that Liebman would be the heir to Coltrane. He...
Ironically, amid all this bullish news the stock market last week resoundingly failed to pierce the magic 1,000 mark on the Dow Jones industrial average. For three days prices hovered just below that point, reaching 996 at midday Thursday; then sell orders flooded the New York Stock Exchange. The...
Last week's statistics lent weight to the President's position. In the final quarter of 1975, the gross national product rose at a rate of 4.9%, its third consecutive quarterly increase; and inflation climbed at a 6.8% rate, down .3% from the preceding quarter. The New York...
Personal Delivery? Critics of scandal-tainted corporations have been demanding management changes, and two companies responded last week-in diametrically opposed ways. In an astonishing display of corporate arrogance, Northrop Co. reinstated Thomas V. Jones as chairman. Jones had been both chairman and president when Northrop paid $30 million to...
It was a heady time to be young, famous and among the first into the era of postwar fiction. Vidal did not attend college; instead, he joined the class of Norman Mailer, Irwin Shaw, James Jones, John Hersey. An Alabama gamin named Truman Capote materialized, and he and Vidal were...