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This week Guide's noiseless cash registers are ringing up drinks and entrance fees to a brisk rhythm, the music of Vibraphonist Cal Tjader and his jazz quartet (quickly convertible to a bongo-congo Latin quintet with the addition of a crack drummer named "Mongo"). Says Owner Guido: "We give the customers good jazz. The musicians we don't bother. We never walked around with big cigars and said, 'I'm Mister Black Hawk and won't you sit at my table, musician?' They can look right across the room when they play...
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED (200 pp.)-Mongo Beti-Macmillan...
...sometimes anticlimactic. From France to Italy to Cuba to Africa to Europe again the story goes, then heads west to Louisiana and loses itself among the deserts and mountains of Mexico. Spanning the Napoleonic period, it introduces many a historical personage in human guise: Napoleon himself, Talleyrand, Slaver Mongo Tom, the Rothschilds (né Meyer). Though this lavish scene forms only the background for the hero, he is the least "real" (i. e., objectified) person in the book. A picaresque Everyman, he wanders the world searching for his soul, finally finds it; but most readers will be less interested...
HARVARD WILLIAMS Lincoin, 3b. c.f., Buck Gordon, r.f. r.f., Bixby Conlon, s.s. s.s, O'Brien Owen 1b. 1 b., Itichmond Buell, 2b. l.f., Mongo Janin, l.f. 2b., Hoyt Hallock, c.f. 3b., Fincke Murphy, c. c., Stephenson Gehrke, p. p., Cobb or Gregory...