Word: notes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Moscow diplomats circulated another (probably apocryphal) footnote to Nikita Khrushchev's secret speech. As Khrushchev told sobbingly how the peerless leader had actually been a killer, coward and sadist all along, a written question was handed up to him. He read out the note to the assembled Party Congress: "What were you doing when Stalin was alive?" Said Khrushchev: "There is no signature on this note. Will the author please stand up?" No one stood up, so Khrushchev said: "I will count to three. Then let the author rise." He counted to three, but no one stood...
...Dallas Morning Newsman clipped an editorial out of the News, hailing Bride-to-Be Margaret Truman, and sent it to the bride's father, Harry Truman. Back came a note of tempered gratitude in which Truman gruffed: "I suppose there has to be a first time for everything." But of the News, a Democratic paper that used to belabor Truman often, the ex-President of the U.S. huffed: "That paper has treated me like a pickpocket...
Like many of the early American jazzmen, Pia is a musical illiterate, unable to read or write a note. While growing up in The Hague, Pia heard a lot of jazz. "I don't know why," she says, "but I always liked that jazz rhythm." At eight, she sat at the family piano and syncopated familiar waltzes and minuets. From recordings of Louis Armstrong. Benny Goodman, Count Basic and other U.S. masters, she learned how to play around a melody, but when she went to study music-reading and correct technique-under the director of a Dutch conservatory...
Since the war. she has toured Europe, North Africa. Australia. Indonesia. From Baltimore, she and the rest of her trio (American guitar and bass players ). after a stop at Washington. D.C.. will go to Chicago's jazz emporium, the Blue Note. Chicago is an exacting town for jazz musicians, but buxom Pia Beck is not worried. "I can always go back to Holland." she says. 'T send a thousand cats a night over there...
...sounds as if it belonged to a screamer, but the tune turns out to be a rather pleasant and intimate plea: "Don't just stand there and stare, help me." Damone sells it smoothly right up to the end, where he can't resist peddling a raucous note...