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...solo dance number will be performed by Mildred Blacklock, Radcliffe '50, a member of the 'Cliffe-Riff chorus. Cynthia Sweeney '50, will do a vocal solo...
Songs for the "Cliff-Riff" portion of the program include "Fascinating Rhythm," "Laura," and "I've Got You Under My Skin," sung with the Krocodiloes. All songs were arranged by Anthony E. Bonner '49. Samuel V. K. Willson '50 is in charge of directing and coordinating the work of the two groups...
...train puffed in, Nice's station shook with yelling and whistling. Flop-coated French zazous (hepcats) raced alongside. France's best "jazz hot" band let go a welcoming riff as big-eyed Louis Armstrong and his U.S. delegation stepped down...
Toni got her rhythm naturally. Her mother was once in the Cotton Club chorus, has always wanted her kids in show business. And her father, a redcap at Los Angeles' Union Station, owns a roomful of hot records-Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, Louis Jordan. "Daddy likes to riff," says Toni sternly. "'Sometimes he keeps us awake all night." But two years ago, Toni began riffing...
Deciding where duty lay might not be easy for Abd el-Krim. The Katoomba had carried from Reunion the coffined bones of El-Krim's mother, who died in 1938. He had promised that she would one day be buried in Morocco. But when the Riff leader walked ashore, the coffin had stayed aboard. This week Katoomba and coffin were on their way to France. It seemed likely that the angry French would hold the dead mother as a hostage for the too lively...