Word: satchmo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harlem's Golden Age began. "Meat was cheap and home brew was strong," wrote Historian Lerone Bennett. "Duke Ellington was at the Cotton Club and Satchmo was at the Sunset, God was in heaven and Father Divine was in Harlem." Those were the days of speakeasies with names like Glory Hole and Basement Brownie's Coal Bed, of stompin' at the Savoy and vaudeville at the Apollo, of "rent parties" where guests paid 50? or $1 to help the host pay his rent and got all the food and drink-and sometimes sex-that they could manage...
...frantically planting trees to stop mud slides. Then public funds appropriated for the project mysteriously started turning up in private pockets; eight top Walker Hill officials are currently under arrest or investigation for embezzlement and bribery. So bad was Walker Hill's credit rating that Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong, whose band got $60,000 for playing the opening two-week stand, "didn't even think of making plane reservations to come here until our fee cleared the bank back home...
...Champ Floyd Patterson, Baseball-Hall-of-Famer Jackie Robinson, Singers Marian Anderson. Harry Belafonte, Nat King Cole, Lena Home and Johnny Mathis, who was the only one of the bunch to place among the 35 Negro millionaires. One famous name missing from the list: high-living Horn Man Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong, 61, who once earned $20,000 a week tooting a trumpet with what came to be known as his "million-dollar lips...
...army to keep its Soviet equipment under wraps, treated the Queen to an essentially British military show. At the national welcoming ceremony, more than 100,000 people jammed the square; only one other Ghanaian crowd had ever approached the strength of the throng-not for Osagyefo, but for Satchmo Louis Armstrong...
...discussion on doctors incomes that on the reception given to President Nkrumah Ghana when he paid Tito a visit before the Belgrade Conference. Exercising uncanny ability to sniff out a political discussion--even from the other side a pitch-black room that fairly tremble from the blasts of Satchmo's horn--the others shouted at the host to "cut this Communist propaganda...