Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wayman Carver, a brilliant hot flutist who has played with some of the best Negro jazz bands, and Alberto Socarras, also a spirited syncopator, whose rumba band was last week at Broadway's Café Zanzibar. The finest legitimate flutist in the U.S. is William Kincaid, a courtly, silver-haired, Honolulu-raised native of Minneapolis, whose abilities ornament the Philadelphia Orchestra. Like all great flutists, Kincaid has a chest like a bellows. He developed it while a child, swimming at Hawaiian beaches with his friend Duke Kahanamoku...
Jimmie formed a band for "gigs" (one-night stands) which was booked through James Reese Europe's Clef Club. He played for debut parties at the Plaza, the Waldorf. He heard what Scott Fitzgerald once described as "a hundred pairs of golden and silver slippers" shuffling "the shining dust." Jimmie began making pianola rolls, often in the same studio with a youngster named George Gershwin...
Amos Alonzo Stagg, silver-haired, 81-year-old coach at the College of the Pacific, got 78% of the votes cast by the Football Writers' Association for the game's "man of the year." His Navy trainees had polished off all but two of their nine tough opponents. At the same time (20-odd years after his team-producing heyday at the University of Chicago), 128 coaches on a New York World-Telegram panel hailed him as their outstanding colleague...
Beauty's Slaves. In Kansas City, four boys were charged with stealing auto accessories: police found them in a sedan equipped with seven tail lights, four spot lights, two radiator lights, a red light in a radiator cap, two flags, three coon tails, a silver ball, two crosses, two regular horns, eleven musical horns and a doorbell with cathedral chimes...
Jensen had come to the U.S. as a cabin boy, and Woollcott had helped him through medical school, ultimately made him his attending physician. Other Woollcott bequests: to Hamilton College (his alma mater), his library; to Harvard, a silver ruler Franklin D. Roosevelt gave...