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McDermott's problem in November will be defeating King County [Seattle] Executive John Spellman, 53, who narrowly bested two rivals in the Republican primary. Spellman, a plodding campaigner, lost to Ray in 1976, but since then has won wide acclaim for completing Seattle's domed stadium, the Kingdome, with no cost overruns. He is now considered a formidable opponent...
...goal of the fellowship program, established by the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, is to prepare physicians to become competent teachers of diagnostic and clinical medicine in general practice and in treatment of older patients, Dr. Mitchell W. Spellman, dean for medical services, said yesterday...
...church never honored Sheen with high office. In 1950 he became national director of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith, and a year later was appointed auxiliary bishop to New York's Francis Cardinal Spellman. But the Cardinal soured on the bishop as his TV and money-raising success soared. Perhaps as a result, the bishop was never to get a Cardinal's red hat. In 1957 Sheen abruptly gave up his TV shows. At age 71, he became a controversial innovator as Bishop of Rochester. Known till then as a conservative, he put a civil...
...predetermined formula. Appropriately, most of the writers chose to place much emphasis on the extra-musical lives of the musicians. A few well-chosen biographical details can often shed more light on the highly personal art of jazz creation than pages of technical dissection. For instance, A.B. Spellman's Black Music: Four Lives, a classic in the field of jazz literature, was conceived largely as a work of sociology. Unfortunately, The Jazz Makers is not so varied, informative, or readable as its alluring format. While it is impossible to capture a great creative spirit in a short essay, most...
...find much better books about jazz. For literary merit, read LeRoi Jones's uneven but occasionally brilliant Black Music. For biography and oral history, read Spellman's Four Lives. For comprehensive approach and an up-to-date discography Frank Tirro's Jazz: A History is among one of the best. But if you know nothing about jazz and want to learn, spend your money on records instead...