Word: parkers
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Traditionally powerful at a low stroke over long distances, the Crimson last year capped Coach Harry Parker's fine first season as varsity coach with an overwhelming eight length victory against Yale over a four mile course. But the varsity failed even to qualify for the finals of the Eastern Sprints, while Yale finished second only to the Big Red of Cornell...
Awori and Ohiri will lead the sprint contingent, just as they did so adequately during the winter campaign. John Parker, Joe Smith, and Dick Briggs will supplement the African pair at 220 yards...
...yard run will be a weak event for the Crimson, with junior Keith Chiappa and Parker the two runners most likely to score. Chiappa had a magnificent winter as a 600-yard runner, but the shorted distance may prove a little fast for his Bermuda blood...
...Sound. All the best players of the time would drop by to sit in at Minton's. Saxophonist Charlie ("Bird") Parker, Trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie. Drummer Kenny Clarke and Guitarist Charlie Christian were all regulars and, in fitful collaboration with them, Monk presided at the birth of bop. His playing was a needling inspiration to the others. Rhythms scrambled forward at his touch; the oblique boldness of his harmonies forced the horn players into flights the likes of which had never been heard before. "The Monk runs deep," Bird would say, and with some reluctance Monk became "the High Priest...
...sustained during much of this bleak time by his friend, mascot and champion, the Baroness Pannonica de Koenigswarter, 50. The baroness had abandoned the aseptic, punctual world of her family* for the formless life of New York's night people. In 1955 she acquired undeserved notoriety when Charlie Parker died in her apartment (BOP KING DIES IN HEIRESS' FLAT); she had merely made an honest stab at saving his life with gifts of money and medicine in his last few days. From then on, though, Nica cut a wide swath in the jazz world...