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...York's Harold Elstner Talbott Jr. gave up a good deal to join the Eisenhower Administration as Secretary of the Air Force. He sold his stock holdings (more than $700,000 worth), resigned as director of Chrysler Corp., cut all his business connections except one: half ownership of Mulligan & Co., a small Manhattan firm (15 employees) engaged in clerical-efficiency studies. Last week that side interest had Harold Talbott in trouble...
...Files. Before taking office in 1953, Talbott told the Senate Armed Services Committee about Mulligan & Co. Under an agreement with Partner Paul Mulligan, he explained, "no work was to be done while I am in Washington that had to do with defense work essentially." But recently the Senate's Permanent Investigations Subcommittee heard that, from his Pentagon office, Secretary Talbott was still drumming up business for Mulligan & Co. When questioned...
Everybody was on hand-Count Basie and Louis Armstrong, Pee Wee Russell, Dave Brubeck, Woody Herman, Roy Eldridge, Gerry Mulligan, the Modern Jazz Quartet, and plenty of others as "far out" as mortal men can get. Tabulating receipts at week's end, Impresario George Wein grinned from ear to ear. Not only would the festival be continued next year, he predicted, but it might well spread to Europe...
...Springfield co-captin Don Stubblebine (130) pinned Bob Holmes, replacing Phil Andrews, after 6:34; Joe Alissi (137) decisioned Dave Jordan, who came off the sicklist to fill in four injured Phil Burnaman; and co-captained John Mulligan (147) took Mike Murray 6 to 0. George Harunk (157) rode Len Miller to a 5 to 0 victory...
...About that time, Progressive Bandleader Stan Kenton passed through Los Angeles, and some of his crew, e.g., Trumpeter Shorty Rogers, Arranger Pete Rugolo, Drummer Shelly Manne, French Hornist John Graas, settled there and became famous. A hollow-eyed trumpeter named Chet Baker and an underweight baritone saxophonist named Gerry Mulligan made themselves fast killings among the cats. By 1952, the West Coast was the U.S.'s newest, biggest stomping ground for jazz. Brubeck felt right at home, shuttled between such clubs as San Francisco's Blackhawk and Los Angeles' The Haig...