Word: julians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Miles Davis Sextet, a well-established jazz combo that got a big hand and rated it. Trumpeter Miles Davis,* who years ago launched in New York what became known as "West Coast jazz," groups together some of jazzland's most gifted performers (Pianist Wynton Kelly, Alto Saxophonist Julian-"Cannonball"-Adderly, Drummer Jimmy Cobb, Bassist Paul Chambers, Tenor Saxophonist John Coltrane), has rehearsed them to play an original repertory (jazzed-up ballads in classic form) with the cohesiveness of a chamber music ensemble...
...buyers named by the Cuban envoy: Colonel Hubert Fauntleroy Julian, the "Black Eagle of Harlem," who started a spectacular career by stunt parachuting over Harlem in red tights, playing a saxophone...
Obviously embarrassed, the Tories stalled off Labor demands for a judicial inquiry, protesting that the question of prosecution was still being examined by Kenya authorities. Finally Julian Amery, Under Secretary of State for the Colonies, stood up in the House to announce: "The Attorney General of Kenya has decided that on the evidence available no charge can be framed against identified individuals in respect of identified illegal force used in the incident." Angrily, Labor M.P. Barbara Castle jumped to her feet to demand, "Has there been any identity parade of warders? If not, why not?" The British press, with honorable...
...When I see a motorboat coming," says one shaky sailor from Baltimore, "I say to myself, I am a sailboat; I have the right of way. Then I get the hell out of there." Investment Banker Julian K. Roosevelt (of the Oyster Bay Roosevelts) recalls the day on Long Island Sound when a power boat pulled alongside his father's 60-ft. schooner Mistress. The intruder bellowed: "Hey, Mac! Which way to port Jefferson?" Says Roosevelt with deep satisfaction: "I answered him in his own way and said, 'First turn to your right, Mac!'" Harrumphs a fellow...
...last year for the first four months. Private construction, up nearly $400 million over last year to $2.9 billion in April, also reached a new record of $10.7 billion in the first four months, largely helped by a 29% rise in home building over last year. Federal Housing Commissioner Julian Zimmerman predicted 1,284,000 new housing starts in 1959 v. 1,201,000 in 1958, but private builders were more optimistic. The National Association of Home Builders estimates "conservatively" that the industry will strike a 1,300,000-start year...