Word: sidney
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thanks to weeks of forewarning, all the struck hospitals had laid in extra stocks of food and linens, had enrolled volunteers who ran trays (with pickup meals on paper plates), trundled patients to and from operating theaters, operated elevators. One Park Avenue matron, Mrs. Sidney Milan, showed up with her butler: she passed out trays while he ran an elevator. Since professional staffs (doctors and nurses) were not involved, patients suffered no serious ill effects...
...Died. Sidney Bechet, 62, Negro Dixieland jazz artist famed for the honeyed wail of his soprano saxophone; of cancer; in Garches, a Paris suburb. At ten Bechet was tooting his clarinet in the dives of Storyville, New Orleans' oldtime red-light district, over the years spread the lusty music of Dixieland up and down the land, across the Atlantic. An eclectic musician who knew Bach, could read music only sketchily, but wrote a ballet, Composer-Performer Bechet wove grand opera into Dixieland, combined some Verdi with Gershwin whenever he played Summertime. In and out of favor...
...early as 8:15 in the morning on opening day, collectors were queueing up outside 57th Street's Sidney Janis Gallery, jostling for first peeks and early buys. By noon. 19 of the show's 22 oils were sold at prices ranging from $2,200 for the smallest oil sketch to $14,000 apiece for five big canvases. At week's end a new De Kooning was not to be had for love or money. Shyly backed against a wall as the crowd milled through the gallery, De Kooning was startled and pleased: "There...
...within inches of his legs. Though still a little stiff from a goring received in a fight a month ago, Baron Clements Jr., 20, of Kilgore, Texas shows signs of becoming the best U.S.-born matador in the alien art of bullfighting since the heyday of Brooklyn's Sidney Franklin 25 years...
Clements is now booked well ahead in provincial arenas, hopes to return to Spain and fight as a full-fledged matador by next Easter. Sidney Franklin is convinced that his young charge is going to be great. Says he: "Nobody in Mexico has his style and manner in killing. And only one-Antonio Ordóñez-can match him in Spain...