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...Mulligan was great. Still using no piano, counting on drums and a bass to carry the rhythm, he skillfully traded melodic lines in fluid counterpoint with valve trombonist Bobby Brookmeyer. They played all the old Mulligan numbers--Motel, Lullaby of the Leaves, Sextet, My Funny Valentine--old because in only three years they have made their arranger famous for his style. The Mulligan sound is a low sound, a tense sound. Unlike Dixieland, it reaches no climaxes, and explodes in no blasting solos. Instead, it edges back and forth, finds harmony for a few lines, then slips off into exciting...

Author: By Richard H. Ullman, | Title: Young Man With A Reed | 5/7/1954 | See Source »

Like any king of the bankroll. Harry has his fawning circle of jesters and helpers. Jake of the G. Washington Motel is happy to send an overflow couple to the Green Glade for their illicit love-making as long as he gets his commission. Gil Leary tickles Harry's "sensayumer" with his birdbrain notions of a Green Glade lounge bar and partnership. Harry's brother. "Morris the Flop,'' sponges off Bachelor Harry to support a wife and kids. In his disciplinarian moods, Harry reminds them all that life is "doggy dog," his own squirrel-lipped version...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Death of a Groper | 2/22/1954 | See Source »

...their wedding night, the honeymooners did their best to dodge newsmen, finally hid out at a $6-a-night motel in Paso Robles, Calif. Seventeen hours later, they disappeared again in Joe's blue Cadillac. When she is settled down Marilyn plans to commute between her studio and San Francisco, where Joe is a public-relations executive for a spaghetti firm. Cracked a Fox official: "We didn't lose an actress; we gained an outfielder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Storybook Romance | 1/25/1954 | See Source »

HOWARD Johnson, the roadside restaurant man, is going into the motel business. He has formed a new company to build and franchise motels, plans to include restaurants in some of the units. The first three will be set up in Florida...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Nov. 2, 1953 | 11/2/1953 | See Source »

...blonde prostitute named Sandy O'Day, and the three drove to a motor court near St. Louis. Hall tossed $2,480 onto the bed for Hager who counted it and announced the total. Hall, to make it a round figure, added $20. Next morning Hager returned to the motel and picked up Sandy O'Day, who was about to leave for Kansas City, where she was later arrested. She told Hager of seeing a suitcase loaded with money. "There must be a million dollars back there," she said. "Then." said Hager, "I knew I did not have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: A Man with Soft Hands | 10/19/1953 | See Source »

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