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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...performance put him far ahead of such former Dodger stars as Pee Wee Reese (30 bases in 1952) and Jackie Robinson (37 bases in 1949). Last year Manager Alston held null back by letting him run only on signals-Wills still stole 35 bases to lead the league. This year, says Wills, "I have the green light to run when I please.'1 And with a respectable .269 batting average (74 hits, all but eleven of them singles), the light goes on often...
...reunion of McKenzie-Condon's Chicagoans-the band organized by Guitarist Eddie Condon and Kazooist Red McKenzie in the 1920s. Among those present: Condon, Saxophonist Bud Freeman, Bass Player Bob Haggart, Drummer Gene Krupa, Trumpeter Jimmy McPartland, Clarinetist Pee Wee Russell, Pianist Joe Sullivan, Trombonist Jack Teagarden. Their enthusiasm has withered little with the years. The album is a remarkable recreation of a style 40 years dead-a style that is reborn in Sullivan's honky-tonk piano and Russell's keening clarinet and, most delightfully, in Teagarden's lumpy but moving vocals in Logan Square...
starts at 2:30 p.m.). In New York's Yankee Stadium, a team of oldtime Yankees, including such gone greats as Bill Dickey, Allie Reynolds, Charlie Keller, and Lefty Gomez, takes on a mixed bag of former Brooklyn Dodger and New York Giant stars: Pee Wee Reese, Jackie Robinson, Mickey Owen, Ralph Branca, Bill Terry, Frankie Frisch, Bobby Thompson...
...years." But the anonymity is not likely to last. After a difficult day, Gleason issued from his penthouse at the George V looking, in spotless maroon jacket and pink shirt, like an Alp covered with wild flowers. He proceeded to the Olympia Music Hall, where his jazzbo buddies Pee Wee Russell and Buck Clayton were playing. Clayton dragged him onstage, and Gleason, whose French is limited to "encore doo van," got howls with a Gallic doubletalk routine. Later, he joked with French Clown Jacques Tati and wandered off to find late-evening brandy with his jazzmen and some...
...already sold out the 72 boxes, which seat ten people, at $10,000 a box," cried Pee-tah Lawford. "This will be the biggest take in show-business history for a one-nighter." Added Frankie: "We expect to raise $1,700,000 for the one night. There's never been anything like it." That's for sure...