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...bash" is generally a jazz combo's one-night stand. Any bash that lasts as much as two nights is in danger of becoming a festival. Last week, under a hot July sun, jazz festivals started erupting across the land. As usual, the major hostilities started at Newport. Now in its sixth year and still the most prestigious of the lot, the Newport festival regularly attracts the royalty of the summer circuit -Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Erroll Garner, the Modern Jazz Quartet, et al.-at fees ranging up to $4,000 a package. The festival is extravagantly promoted, strenuously...
...evening concerts at the city-owned ball field, plus a series of "breakfast seminars" conducted by scholars on such hip topics as "The Role of Jazz in American Culture." New to the scene was a pair of Russian wolfhounds representing Wolfschmidt vodka, and a "fashion-jazz spectacular" titled "Newport Is a Lark" and featuring such jazz-inspired fashions as a Bop Period "nasturtium-colored velveteen jacket lined and piped with hot pink shantung." Musical novelty: the "first authentic American jazz ballet," a 22-minute retelling of the Harlequin-Columbine story to music by the Modern Jazz Quartet. The ballet...
...Washington. A World War II submariner (six combat patrols), Osborn spent his postwar years earning a master's degree in mechanical engineering in three years at Annapolis and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, firing the first subborne Regulus air-breathing missiles from the U.S.S. Tunny, taking an advanced course at Newport, R.I.'s Naval War College. Last June he passed the personal test of the Navy's nuclear submarine boss. Vice Admiral Hyman Rickover, then hit the missile-and nuclear-training circuit from California's Lockheed plant, where the Polaris is produced, to Groton's boat yard...
...memorial service for Samuel Powel III, late of the Class of 1961, will be held this Sunday at 10:45 a.m. at the St. George's School Chapel, Middletown, in Newport, R.I. Friends of Powel are invited to attend...
Shouted Down. Where the U.S. consumer reigns, the gains were most striking. U.S. smokers, puffing away at a record rate, upped both sales and profits of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camel, Winston, Salem) and P. Lorillard Co. (Kent, Newport, Old Gold), both of whose stockholders approved stock splits to make room for further growth. When a stockholder tried to ask a few critical questions of Reynolds Chairman John C. Whitaker, other stockholders were already so taken with the good news that they stamped their feet, shouted the dissenter down...