Word: joy
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hall), he organized a group of musicians in Vienna, wrote out jazz-style counterpoint for them and made a series of broadcasts. American Jazz Buff John Hammond, who had a significant part in the careers of Basie and Benny Goodman, listened to off-the-air recordings and flipped for joy. He helped Gulda gather his combo in the U.S., got him booked into Birdland and also for Newport's American Jazz Festival next week...
...contest, collected 30 Swedish kronor ($8). The same week, his father received a telegram from Chicago announcing that he was runner-up in the international Chicago Tribune Tower contest, with a design that Skyscraper Architect Louis Sullivan hailed as "a voice, resonant and rich, ringing amidst the wealth and joy of life." Eliel Saarinen promptly dipped into the $20,000 prize to move his family to the U.S. When the family landed in Manhattan, Eero Saarinen was twelve...
Died. Admiral Charles Turner Joy, U.S.N., ret., 61. chief U.N. negotiator of the Korean War truce talks at Panmunjom from July 1951 to May 1952, onetime (1949-52) commander of U.S. Naval Forces in the Far East, 37th superintendent (1952-54) of the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, author (How Communists Negotiate); of leukemia: in San Diego. To Admiral Joy, the three-year Korean conflict was a tragic "holy war" which the U.N., by failing to press its advantages, lost to the Communists...
Over one-half of the Senior Class will graduate with honors today. Sixty-eight will receive cum laudes; 41, magna cum laudes; and seven, summa cum laudes. Women receiving summas are Sandra Chrones, Oneonta, N.Y.; Joy Hambuechen, Huntington, L.I.; Margaret V. Means, Summit, N.J.; Cynthia M. Rich, Baltimore; Evelyn Janover, New York City; and Elizabeth Waddington, Bartlesville, Okla...
They are: Joyce Backman, English; Susan L. Baker, History; Marie DePuis Bardos, English; Alice Cooper, History and Literature; Carol Kirsch Dietz, History and Literature; Joan P. Friendly, Social Relations; Diana Frothingham, Romance Languages and Literatures; Rebecca Garrison, History and Literature; Joy Mambuechen, Romance Languages and Literatures...