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...found dancing skill of Kwame Nkrumah, Prime Minister of the new British Commonwealth country of Ghana (TIME, March 18), was fully explained by Lucille Armstrong, wife of Trumpeter Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong. "Two weeks before Nkrumah danced with the Duchess of Kent, he couldn't do a step," said she. "He was worried about the inaugural ball and implored me to teach him to dance. So I tried him with a quick step first-Blueberry Hill. Each evening after dinner in his private sitting room we practiced for an hour with music played on records. Well, man, 48 hours before...
...Lord Privy Seal R. A. ("Rab") Butler to Red China's Marshal Nien Yung-cheng. Among especially invited U.S. Negroes: Dr. Ralph Bunche, Representative Adam Clayton Powell Jr., the Rev. Martin Luther King, A. Philip Randolph, president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, and Mrs. Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong...
...Hungarian relief concert in London, hot-lipped Trumpeter Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong and five local cats out-blasted the whole blasted Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, which sought to play under the hesitant, finally motionless, baton of Conductor Norman Del Mar. After running wild until shortly before midnight, Satchmo, on hand as a guest artist to fill out, not ruin, the Philharmonic, loped off stage while a flustered impresario temporarily confiscated his trumpet to prevent an all-night encore. But the hep types filling Royal Festival Hall screamed and stomped for more. (One of the most insistent: the rock-'n'-rolling...
Perry Como, in two holiday colorcasts (Dec. 22 and 29, 8 p.m., NBC), will engage, among others, Bishop Fulton Sheen, Rosemary Clooney, Teresa Brewer. Red Buttons, Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong...
...trick horse. The Lord let it rain and the horse won anyway, but as musical theater the whole carnival romp was a washout. Recording Artist Kay Starr's anvil voice (with a nice built-in sob) led a lusty counterpoint melody between town and clown. But Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong as bandmaster and oldtime Circus Comic Buster Keaton were so much wasted tanbark. The "original" Jo Swerling-Hal Stanley music and lyrics had a too-familiar ring. ("If fate should hurt you/ I won't desert you/ We'll be together/ In stormy weather...