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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other jazz luminaries. He has also played Storyville and appeared on Steve Allen's Tonight, as well as Fr. O'Conner's Boston TV show. In technique and jazz concept he is decisively separated from the other Harvard jazzmen, and steady work has allowed him to practice and progress...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cambridge Cools Cats Who Thrive On Dixieland, Modern Jazz, Jive; Coffee-Houses May Bring Revival | 9/18/1958 | See Source »

John compares the real lack of substantial jazz activity at Harvard with the more lively Princeton atmosphere, and notes that there will be no progress until interest increases, and this can come only through hearing men play. "They have to hire what they have or nothing will improve. There used to be a piano at WHRB, and on Fridays really good men would get together and play--fellows like Pomeroy and Twardzik. They'll play for money, or enthusiasm. But they won't play for nothing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cambridge Cools Cats Who Thrive On Dixieland, Modern Jazz, Jive; Coffee-Houses May Bring Revival | 9/18/1958 | See Source »

Eisenhower called Attorney General William P. Rogers into conference in Washington at week's end to range over the nation-splitting dispute. Meanwhile, somehow, thousands of U.S. schoolchildren in thousands of U.S. communities were threading through legal hairsplitting, hoodlum threats, racist hobgoblins, across small steps of progress and bridges of hope on their annual way back to school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SOUTH: Drawing the Lines | 9/15/1958 | See Source »

Defense Posture. Since Sputnik, the U.S. has placed four satellites of its own in space, sent two atom-powered submarines under the North Pole-unmistakable evidence that the nation is technologically equipped to counter the pressures and progress of Soviet Russia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICS: Changing Campaign | 9/15/1958 | See Source »

...point up the contradictions of aid, easy as it is to show that it does not produce all that the optimists claim for it and brings little gratitude, the fact is that on balance, U.S. food has saved many lives, U.S. assistance has brought the beginnings of economic progress to many nations. If such nations are still not healthy, they would have been sicker without aid-and prey to riot and revolution. And so, swallowing its misgivings, the U.S., in its newfound determination to rid itself of the stigma of hostility to Arab nationalism, is now even implicitly committed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AID: What Money Can Buy | 9/1/1958 | See Source »

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