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...Basie's "One O'Clock Jump" was renamed when radio censors vetoed the original title, "Blue Balls." McShann provides yet another anecdote about how Parker came to be called Yardbird. Ricker's 24 hours of rough footage doubtless contained many more interesting stories, but as a movie, not an oral history project, the film's wonderful sense of pace easily offsets an occasional choppiness in cutting from one bull session to another...
Voting on the resolution was scheduled for Friday night. There was no lack of clarity in Vance's postbreakfast instructions to McHenry: the U.S. would abstain unless McHenry got the offensive paragraph removed, and he must later make the oral reservation about the dismantling demand. Vance did not tell McHenry that every reference to Jerusalem...
...fantasy columnist for a girlie magazine; sure enough, the fantasies sent in during her yearlong stint were much the same as those from readers of her book. She found that the sexually voracious woman is one of the most popular themes, as is the fantasy of performing oral sex. Unlike women, who prefer fantasies of sex with faceless strangers, men's fantasy partners are almost always specific individuals, she says...
...decide with a tie-breaking vote, but Douglas refused to leave the bench. He was determined, he told a friend, to stay on the court until a Democratic President was elected who could appoint his successor. But his pain became so unbearable that he could no longer sit through oral arguments, and in November 1975 he reluctantly retired...
...hatreds and dirty deals to on and on. "Did we really do such terrible things to the Left?" Richard Heilbroner implores in his promotion blurb on the back of the book jacket. Yes, Richard, we really did, according to Lader, who has blended public records with personal interviews, oral histories, diaries, letters and unpublished reporters' notes to come up with what is probably the most exhaustive and exhausting chronicle of the Left in the United States since Senator Joe McCarthy first curdled the airwaves with his own personal version of the radical movement...