Word: mulligans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...music topic in Los Angeles last week was the cool jazz of a gaunt, hungry-looking young (25) fellow named Gerry Mulligan, who plays the baritone saxophone. For the past three months, Mulligan's quartet has been performing in a nightclub known as the Haig, a spot that has featured such stalwarts as Red Norvo and Erroll Garner-and he was drawing the biggest crowds in the club's history. Says the Haig's happy manager: "People just like his kind of sound...
...Mulligan's kind of sound is just about unique in the jazz field: his quartet uses neither piano nor guitar, does its work with trumpet, bass, drums and, of course, Mulligan's hoarse-voiced baritone sax. In comparison with the frantic extremes of bop, his jazz is rich and even orderly, is marked by an almost Bach-like counterpoint. As in Bach, each Mulligan man is busily looking for a pause, a hole in the music which he can fill with an answering phrase. Sometimes the polyphony is reminiscent of tailgate blues, sometimes it comes tumbling with bell...
...Springs, Calif., where he is building a home overlooking the third tee. Other golfers find themselves dreaming of the day Hogan will find a nice green pasture for himself. It seems to be their only hope of getting a real shot at one of the pig tournaments. Like a mulligan stew, Ben Hogan just seems to get better & better the longer he simmers...
...replace Hise and Gunderson on RFC's board, and to fill the vacancy left by Director Henry Mulligan, who resigned almost four months ago, the President last week made three nominations: two were Democrats-Oklahoma Banker W. Elmer Harber and Massachusetts Lawyer C. Edward Rowe-and the third was a Republican who talks like a Democrat: Utah Banker Walter E. Cosgriff. The President also renominated RFC Director William E. Willett, to a three-year term. He will probably be the new RFC chairman...
...first big bloom in the Reformation, when dispossessed English priests joined up with thieves and highwaymen and taught them scraps of Latin. By 1630, "Thieves' Latin" had all but passed away, to be replaced by the cant which fathered U.S. gangster and hobo language-a rich mulligan of native ingredients peppered lightly with foreign words, e.g., booze from the Middle Dutch bus en (to tipple), stir from the gypsy stariben (a prison...