Word: krupa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Creating Characters. Both painters arrived at film-fashioned realism by the circuitous route of abstract expressionism. A gregarious jazz trombonist who played with Gene Krupa's band, Kanovitz, 39, was first attracted to art by a fellow musician who was studying painting. The more his sideman talked, the more Kanovitz liked what he heard. He enrolled at the Rhode Island School of Design, soon moved on to New York, where he got wrapped up in the Greenwich Village group that revolved around Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning and Robert Motherwell. He continued to paint abstract expressionist canvases up until...
...memory of the occasion Benny got the old group together last week for an evening of dinner-and-jam at his Manhattan apartment. Some of the boys -James, Pianist Teddy Wilson, Trombonist Red Ballard-were tied up elsewhere, but 14 of the original 26 made it, including Drummer Gene Krupa, Vibraphonist Lionel Hampton, Pianist Jess Stacy and Singer Martha Tilton. Goodman, now 58, fed them all a buffet supper, and then they sat down to blow Avalon, Sweet Lorraine, Stompin' at the Savoy. As they used to say back then-swingin...
...Secret Ingredient. Taking no chances, the Krupa machine unblushingly set out to steal the election (see box). The skulduggery was so blatant that it rebounded in Hatcher's favor, bringing cash and services from citizens far from Lake County...
...last-ditch attempt to defeat Gary's Mayoral Candidate Richard Hatcher, the local Democratic machine set out to steal the vote in vintage Tammany Hall style. And the machine under Boss John Krupa, Hatcher's archfoe, was just the outfit to do it. As secretary of the board of election commissioners and the board of canvassers, Krupa dropped from the registration lists the names of 5,286 voters, mostly Negroes. At the same time, hundreds of fictitious registrations were added so that paid impostors could cast ballots against Hatcher. Since his winning margin last week was only...
Fortunately, Hatcher was one step ahead of the machine. He fired off a telegram to Attorney General Ramsey Clark urging that the Justice Department intervene; then, a week before the election, he charged in Federal Court that Krupa and others were violating the Voting Rights Act of 1965. His charges drew nationwide attention and brought demands for federal action from both of Indiana's Democratic Senators, Vance Hartke and Birch Bayh...