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...March for what he courageously hopes will be a combat post in Viet Nam. Meanwhile, they can catalogue their copious supply of wedding gifts, including a $6,770 silver tea and coffee service from the Washington diplomatic corps, a nest of teak tables from Chiang Kaishek, a color sketch of Eeyore by Winnie-the-Pooh Illustrator Ernest Shepard (Lynda is a Pooh buff), and-from Republican Senate Minority Leader Everett Mc-Kinley Dirksen, of course-a small silver elephant...
Apart from a probing sketch of Dorsey, Simon provides little that is fresh on such familiar figures as Miller, Benny Goodman, and Duke Ellington, but he gives appropriate recognition to some of the brilliant though now largely forgotten ensembles of the period: the sizzling band headed by tiny, hunchbacked Drummer Chick Webb, featuring Ella Fitzgerald, which triumphed at Harlem's Savoy Ballroom in a 1937 battle of the bands with Goodman's group; the lush, colorfully textured Claude Thornhill band; the showmanlike Jimmie Lunceford unit, whose buoyant two-beat style influenced such latter-day bands as Billy...
...made him the terror of the telly a few years ago on That Was the Week That Was. But unlike TW3, which confined its satire to a string of short, disconnected vignettes, Bird's new show preys on a wide range of subjects in one continuous 25-minute sketch...
...preparing for the Protestant ministry, he taught himself to draw the dour peasants and bleak countryside almost as a form of spiritual communication. "I see in the whole of nature, for instance in the trees, expression, and so to speak, soul," he said of an early sketch. "A row of pollard willows sometimes has something of a procession of orphaned men about...
Fairchild prodded reporters to ferret out fashion news ahead of competitors; he needled designers and manufacturers into giving him exclusives, and he insisted on getting the material for fashion sketches earlier than anyone else. Women's Wear has come to pride itself on scoops, from revealing Jackie Kennedy's Paris buying sprees during the 1960 election campaign to printing the first sketch of Luci Johnson's wedding dress -an act that caused the paper's reporters to be banned from the wedding...