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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reputation among jazzmen is declining. They regard it as a giant public relations carnival-"a jazz supermarket," Trumpeter Davis calls it. Saxophonist Desmond feels that Newport is all right "for the young fellows just getting started," but that established stars "have nothing specially to gain, and the critics present can give us a roasting...
...leaving a museum she has built up from scratch, and that now boasts a growing first-rate collection, an active membership of 4,400, an annual operating budget of $150,000. Says she, "I'm rather happy-my sense is of 'mission accomplished.' " As a farewell present, she will take with her four massive portfolios of art contributed by some 200 local painters, printmakers, watercolorists and sculptors whom she has long championed. Their admiration and affection is warmly returned by Grace Morley, who says firmly: "The Bay Area is one of the most creative centers...
...ministry next morning, Topping was greeted by a press officer: "I am happy to advise you that your request to see your countrymen has been granted." Then, disconcertingly, in walked eight other journalists, representatives of various Communist newspapers in East Germany and Western Europe. Topping was the only American present. Bundled into four limousines, the party whisked over the Autobahn south of Berlin, while the Communist hosts shrugged off questions on their destination...
...quickly evident that Kemper had no idea the Communists were using the Americans as hostages to pressure the State Department into recognition of the East German government. When Topping asked permission to present the facts of the case to Kemper so he could answer questions intelligently, he was cut off with: "No statements." But a Communist official promptly made a statement of his own: "The German Democratic Republic is making no political conditions for your release. It is the American side that is making the conditions...
...troubles he encountered in trying to run a business in a territory convinced him that statehood was the only answer for Alaska. With a booster's confidence in the future, Snedden bought an expensive, highly modern press capable of handling a press run of 200,000 (his present circulation is only 9,495), now turns out some of the handsomest newspaper color work in the nation. Publisher Snedden will not say how much money he has spent on his crusade ("Too damn much-just ask my creditors"), but he doesn't really care. Says he contentedly: "From...