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Jazz DIZZY GILLESPIE & THE DOUBLE SIX OF PARIS (Philips) soar from high spot to high spot, from Oo-Shoo-Be-Doo-Be to Ow. Dizzy does blithe acrobatics with his trumpet, then stands aside for the legendary expatriates Bud Powell and Kenny Clark to shine briefly on piano and drums. In the meanwhile, the Double Six, a sextet of jazz singers, chime in like an instrumental combo, and Mimi Perrin, who has an extraordinarily agile voice, even takes on a couple of solos meant for Charlie Parker's horn...
...good reason. Despite his pallor at the polls, Goldwater has such apparent delegate strength that he seemed a near cinch for the nomination. Then again, Lyndon Johnson looks like even more of a shoo-in for November, so many of the kingmakers decided they might as well sit this one out. "On a ten-to-one shot, what's the use of jumping off the building?" asked one important G.O.P. moneyman...
...count on only three sure victories and two of those will be the doing of Captain Wendell Mottley, a Trinidadian who holds the world indoor record in the 440-yard run. The Crimson doesn't have anyone who can stay near him at that distance, so the Elis are shoo-ins in the 440 and the mile relay...
Coming off two good dives, Mahoney looked like a shoo-in for the championship as he began his approach on his third and next-to-last try. But as he vaulted for his final spring, his knees buckled under him and he crumpled onto the tip of the board, then tumbled like a rock three metres into the pool below...
...engaged in some premature enemy aircraft spotting from the club window when she falls to her death. We last see The Group as they gather to bury their own. They scotch talk of suicide (all "decide" it was an accident), lay her out in one of those spiffy apartments, shoo away the undertaker with his unacceptable cosmetics and dress poor Kay in a white dress from Fortuny's, the "first casualty," says a Vassar clublady, "in America's war against fascism...