Word: matlock
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pete Kelly's Blues (Victor & Columbia LPs). Both of these disks offer the same musicians-Clarinetist Matty Matlock and his Jazz Band, including Tenorman Eddie Miller, Guitarist George Van Eps, Drummer Nick Fatool-and eleven of the same tunes from the current movie. Several of the players, once the shock-thatched cream of Chicagoland, are now the cream of Movieland, and their thinning hair is neatly parted...
...evening before Raymond Matlock's eighth birthday, his family headed for Washington, N.J., 15 miles south of the Matlock farm, to buy presents for his party. Packed into the new Matlock sedan were Raymond and nine relatives: father at the wheel, mother, brother, three sisters, grandmother, two aunts...
After the Matlocks started south, a northbound trailer truck driven by John Scarantino passed through Washington. Three miles outside Washington, Scarantino (whose New Jersey driving rights were revoked last year when he failed to appear in court on a charge of passing on a curve) swerved into the left-hand lane to avoid a truck parked on the shoulder ahead of him. He saw the oncoming Matlock car too late. All of the Matlocks except Raymond were killed outright; Raymond died next morning, on his birthday...