Word: kirke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kirk Bryan, professor of Physiography, will conduct a symposium on geomorphology at the annual convention of the Association of American Geographers on April 6 The symposium, to be held at Clark University, will honor the 100th birthday of the founder of the Association, William M. Davis '69, late Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology...
...Kirk Douglas, still looking more like a Champion than a genius, plays the musician, Rick Martin. For the behind-the-scenes trumpet they could have picked Bobby Hackett, the last fine musician of the Bix school. They could have selected any one of a number of good young California trumpeters who worship Beiderbecke's records. So they chose Harry James. This only adds to the public illusion that jazz was discovered in New Orleans by Larry Parks, that it was brought up to Chicago on the riverboats by Arturo de Cordoya, and that every great jazz trumpeter must have sounded...
Screen Director's Playhouse (Fri. 9 p.m., NBC). Kirk Douglas in Champion...
...Murray Show (Sat. 8 p.m., CBS-TV). Kirk Douglas in scenes from Champion...
...need of some integrity of its own. Suggested vaguely by the career of the late great Bix Beiderbecke, Dorothy Baker's 1938 novel told the story of a hot trumpet virtuoso who is driven and destroyed by the monomania of a jazz perfectionist. The film makes the hero (Kirk Douglas) largely the victim of a bad woman (Lauren Bacall). He is saved by the love of a good one (Doris Day) in time for a happy ending that is as off-key as a leaky cornet...