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...LAST HUNT, by Milton Loft (399 pp.; Houghton Mifflin; $3.95) is the story of the age of slaughter when, in the space of 20 years, the hide hunters wiped the buffalo herds from the face of the West. From Texas to Idaho they left "nothin but bones layin white in the sun like an alkali flat . . . and the wagon wheels breakin em like sticks." Milton Lott. 35-year-old millwright who got a Houghton Mifflin fellowship for this first novel, was born and raised in the Snake River country, the scene of his story. He describes his hunters' comfortless...
...Music of Duke Ellington (Columbia LP). Reissues of twelve matchless Ellington originals, ranging in style from The Mooche (1928) to Do Nothin' Till You Hear from Me (1947). Highlights: Kay Davis' wordless, sensuous crooning in the Creole Love Call, the elegant interplay of Johnny Hodges' alto and Harry Carney's bouncing baritone in I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart. Baby Cox's unforgettable vocal growl in The Mooche...
...colored woman tottered to the bar, an empty shot glass in her hand. "It don't amount to nothin'," she said...
...tell ya, it don't amount to nothin', nothin'," she said...
...caught the thief in action. Reed was showered with glass as the boy made a break for it through the window, but had his microphone ready as the thief struggled with Perkins, then cried and whimpered ("My mother'11 kill me, I wasn't doin' nothin'."). At the station house, Reed was again ready with his recording equipment as the boy's mother wailed for minutes and then, in subdued tones, told of the anguish of sitting at home, waiting for her son's return: "I've been up almost 15 hours...