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...Manhattan Jazzman Lucky Thompson and his tenor sax to the camp for a concert. There are 200 tape-recorded hours of Lucky's music on hand at Kenwood. Progressive jazz floats incessantly through the pines and maples. "Lucky is my rhythm man," Archie explains. "He plays while I skip rope, and this makes a pulsation which keeps me in time. We're artists who appreciate each other's work...
...drinks plain hot water instead of coffee or tea. In Washington he and his second wife Rosina (his first marriage ended in divorce) live quietly in their own home near Chevy Chase; to avoid the capital rounds, they consulted a protocol expert for advice on invitations they could properly skip. He enjoys dancing, good music, golf and-"through force of habit," he says wryly-dishwashing. He plays the guitar, likes chess and a careful game of bridge. He writes weekly to his children (two daughters and one son, a senior I.B.M. mathematician), sends postcards to his six grandchildren. Scrupulous about...
...show-I'm being myself, which is harder than acting"), earns $150 for each five-minute performance, will get $500 when she gets a sponsor. In her opening week, she wore a different full-length nightie for each show, but now she feels comfortably at home, henceforth will skip about in scanties...
...Nehru's careful plans tumbled around his ears. Pakistan's Mohammed Ali, arriving late, objected to Nehru's plan to avoid controversial questions and to skip opening speeches. Turkey's Fatin Rustu Zorlu said coldly that Turkey was not ready to accept decisions taken in its absence. "We have traveled a long way, and we want to be heard," said Liberia's Momolu Dukuly. Angrily, Nehru stalked out of the room, snapping, "The trouble with this conference is that there are too many people here with a U.N. mentality...
...supply of film, and the promise of a developer from another company. But when the machine arrived at Idlewild, it was too big for the hatch of the freight airplane. Finally, after many months, the developer reached its destination. By that time it was March 1952. Don't Skip. In selecting their material, Daly and Donnelly tried to avoid duplication. "But just when we were ready to skip something," says Father Daly, "up would pop something important." In a 12th century Bible, they found the musical notations of a choir master, "all of great value to students of musical...