Word: misters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stage of the Chamber Music Auditorium of the Library of Congress the oldtime pianist sat at the keyboard, facing an open microphone. "Mister Morton," said Alan Lomax, assistant curator of the Library's American Folk Song Archive, "how about the beginning? Tell about where you were born and how you got started . . . and maybe keep playing piano while you talk...
...piano," talked and played almost every day for a month. Folklorist Lomax, co-author with his late father, John A. Lomax, of Folk Song U.S.A., etc., listened and recorded. What he heard (and later checked up on) adds up to more than mere reminiscent fodder for jazz fans. Mister Jelly Roll (Duell, Sloan & Pearce; $3.50), published last week, is also the full-flavored story of a raucous, diamond-studded era of U.S. history, as seen and told by a mulatto genius who lived it from top to bottom...
Died. Frances Seymour Brokaw Fonda, 42, well-to-do estranged wife of the stage & screen's Henry Fonda (Mister Roberts); by her own hand; in Beacon...
Habits & Tropical Fish. Under the Dewarts, nothing changed. Executive Editor Speed continued to "mister" his staffers, including City Editor Bartnett, though 60% of them had worked for the Sun for 15 years or more. When he entered the museumlike quiet of the too-neat city room, Speed snuffed out his cigarette because that was the rule in Mr. Munsey's day, and "habits are hard to break...