Word: perfectability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although he rarely composes any more, Trumpeter Davis recently sketched some music for a French movie entitled Lift to the Gallows ("about a man who has committed the perfect crime-until he got stuck in an elevator"). In Europe he is perhaps the most widely imitated modern U.S. jazzman. No matter how closely young musicians may listen to him, Davis hates to take a backward look at his work. "You always see how you would have done it different," he says. "If you play good for eight bars, it's enough-for yourself...
...figured on such an easy time. But it was even easier than easy. The Lions could not afford to lose another quarterback, so their blockers reared up and bounced the Browns out of range of Tobin Rote with ferocious energy. And Tobin Rote, Layne's alternate, lofted perfect passes that had Detroit ahead, 17-0, by the end of the first quarter...
...seen in the mysteriously soulful face of Maria Schell. It is the face of a princess in a German fairy tale. Her hair is still the palest gold, and it tumbles over her shoulders, when she lets it down, in quietly melodious loops. Her skin is white and perfect. Her mouth is delicate, and her smile almost too exquisitely sweet. Her eyes change, as the light changes, from blue to grey to green, and are unusually large; when she smiles, they brim with tenderness and a kind of luminous spirituality that seems to tame the beast and inspire the best...
...concert opened with a vigorous performance of Vivaldi's Concerto Grosso for four solo violins. David Hurwitz, Ronald Hathaway, Katherine Gratwick, and Ruth Miller performed the solo parts with consistent vitality and precision, if not perfect intonation. Although the contrast between the ensemble and the concertino group was not as great as it might have been in a larger orchestra, the string section demonstrated once again its brilliance and fullness, while Mr. Senturia emphasized the formal power and relentlessness of the concerto...
Married. Don Larsen, 28, New York Yankee pitcher and baseball immortal (the only perfect game in World Series history, against the Brooklyn Dodgers last year); and onetime Airline Stewardess Corrine Audrey Bruess, 26; he for the second time, she for the first; in Benson, Minn...