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Fortenberry is an old pro at the game. He has 1,450 jumps to his credit, missed the title by scant centimeters in 1960, placed third in 1962 when he competed with a broken collarbone. But the real crowd pleaser was the women's world champion, pert, brown-haired Dallas Secretary Tee Taylor, 22. Three years ago, Tee didn't know a parachute from an umbrella. But then someone invited her to try it and she was skyhooked. She had only 455 jumps when she showed up at Leutkirch, but she won the style event-and averaged...
...said; such is doubly sad since sculptors once provided the Festival's most exciting works. Of the twenty-odd pieces only John Bergschneider's Lucifer and Kahlil Gibran's Torso are particularly good although Eleanor Koplow's amusing ceramic of Miami Beach will be the chief crowd-pleaser. The only notable ink drawing is one by Alexander Robert McDonald, and there are no memorable woodcuts or lithographs...
...scheduled day because it fell on a Sunday, and later attended the Foundry Methodist Church in Washington, D.C. James A. Garfield was not only a member of the Disciples of Christ but a minister, whose success as a preacher led to his success as a political crowd pleaser...
...Maxwell Taylor, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, each grabbed one of Khanh's stubby arms high in a victory salute. McNamara then wowed the crowd by shouting lustily three times in Vietnamese: "Viet Nam rnuon nam!" (Viet Nam forever). The act proved such a crowd-pleaser that the barnstormers repeated it everywhere...
...whom are also in Gary Berger's band, played five jazz standards with astonishing competence; there arrangements were often original, their ensemble work sharp and clean. But individual solos are the test of small-group jazz, and the Blue Notes' soloists shone. Tenor Saxophonist Ben Friedman, a real crowd-pleaser, is technically master of his instrument. His best solo, on Thelonius Monk's Straight, No Chaser, was a honking, exuberant anthology of tenor sax styles, jumping from Johnny Hodges to Ornette Coleman to John Coltrane with deftness and humor. Friedman is strongly influenced by Coltrane, with a little Getz...