Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Coleman Hawkins & His All-Stars (Concert Hall LP). Tenorman Hawkins is one of the alltime master hot improvisers, a willy-nilly progenitor of the bellowing excesses that mark today's rock-'n-roll craze (TIME, April 4). This record shows that Hawkins' swooping insinuations, his ever-building arabesques, his brash, driving rhythms have withered little with the years...
...think of England!" After Ursula has taken her last toss ("She fell at Bombay in the Viceroy's Cup, when the hurdle had been put up to six feet"), Widower Marmaduke marries a typical Frenchwoman named Martine, the tenderest strand of honeysuckle that ever twined round a rock of Gibraltar. Martine has none of Ursula's stamina at lacrosse, but on the field of l'amour can play tirelessly for hours, "devoting to love," says happy Marmaduke, "the care we [British] bring to making...
Wonderful Business. In her dressing room between shows, munching a tired-looking sandwich and listening with one ear to cries of "Lillian!" from the street below, Entertainer Briggs surveyed her fast, dazzling rise. "It's wonderful! I love the whole business." The rough rock 'n' roll mob? They wouldn't hurt her-but she makes it a point to sneak out side doors, even though the cops are there to protect...
Lillian's zoom to success is not surprising. She has looks, a brassy voice that -when anybody cares to listen-is both true and spirited, and she can play trombone. The rock 'n' roll fad has probably whirled her up faster than otherwise would have happened, but her sudden good fortune has not made her cocky. "If anything goes off in this business," she says. I'll go back to driving a truck...
Died. Aline Bernstein, 72, longtime top Broadway scene and costume designer (Reunion in Vienna in 1931, The Happy Time in 1949), longtime friend and confidante of the late Novelist Thomas Wolfe, model for Stage Designer Esther Jack in his novels The Web and the Rock and You Can't Go Home Again; after a long illness; in Manhattan...