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...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...
Nobody seems sure how old the stringbean Negro is. Satchmo himself has always been vague about the date of his birth in Mobile, Ala. The best guess...
Arriving in Hawaii from Japan with her husband, Trumpeter Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong, former Show Girl Lucille Wilson Armstrong ran into trouble with Honolulu customs men who dug into her overnight bag, found a spectacles case containing crazy cigarettes. Charged with trying to smuggle marijuana, Lucille contended that the whole case was crazy because she doesn't even wear glasses...
...cascade ranged in mood from Silent Night itself and a musical rendering of the Lord's Prayer to a husky-voiced double-entendre by Eartha Kitt entitled Santa Baby, and something called Cool Yule, sung and trumpeted by Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong. But inevitably, after the runaway success of last year's I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus (TIME, Dec. 15), the best brains in the pop music business have been boiling overtime to find another small-fry special...
...Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong arrived in Chicago for a theater engagement with his usual load of patent medicines and some ready advice for flu sufferers. Said he: "People wouldn't have flu at all if they'd watch the gargle and the eyewash and drink plenty of Pluto water...