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...Haled into a Miami traffic court, Leroy ("Satchel") Paige, patriarch of pitchers, whose age is a matter of opinion (his opinion, 49; his mother's, 54), drew a 20-day jail sentence and a chance to work out his time on the ball field. For every game Satch wins for the Miami Marlins, said Judge Charles Snowden, he will get a day's credit. He will get the same reward for every run he scores and for every time he strikes out his nemesis, Luke Easter of the Buffalo Bisons...
...Those Things. George Sanders suavely suggested that he was singing C'est Magnifique. Peter Lind Hayes and Mary Healy provided the comic element, with some mild stabs of wit. Bing Crosby merely contributed a tune clipped from High Society (Now You Has Jazz), sung with Louis ("Satch-mo") Armstrong, whose galvanic Blow, Gabriel, Blow undoubtedly jazzed up CBS's ratings. Best numbers: You Do Something to Me, ravishingly sung by Dorothy Dandridge: Sanders and bosomy Dolores Gray seductively sighing Let's Do It; and a bit of frail Cole Porter himself singing in clipped, patrician tones...
Mack the Knife (Louis Armstrong combo; Columbia). An uptempo, updated version of Kurt Weill's wonderful old ragtime hit from The Threepenny Opera (1928). Satchmo plays a lilting chorus and growls some free variations on the fine Marc Blitzstein lyrics (1954). Then he hears a shouted "Take it, Satch," and the Armstrong trumpet takes it high...
...lipped Trumpeter Louis ("Satch-mo") Armstrong, who correctly named six out of seven melodies on a TV quiz show (his flub: the prelude to Act III of Lohengrin), happily sent his $800 prize to his old alma mater, New Orleans' Milne Municipal Home for Boys, where Satchmo was sent at 13 after he prankishly fired a pistol at the moon to celebrate New Year...
...Satch," because of his age, just couldn't fit into the plans to build up the Orioles," said Art Ehlers, the Baltimore general manager...