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...anything, instead of deteriorating over the years, Pepper's style has expanded and deepened. He has always something, an original; but in the late 1940s and early '50s, when his recordings with Stan Kenton, Shorty Rogers and other West Coast jazzmen first brought him to prominence, his sound combined traces of Lester Young's cool obliqueness with Charlie Parker's harmonic and rhythmic complexities. Later he took on a darker, sometimes harsher quality as he came under the influence of John Coltrane's stabbing, honking outcries and modal sheets of sound. Last week...
Referee Dave Newell ejected Islanders Bob Lorimer, Gord Lane, Howatt and Sutter and Bruins Al Secord, Stan Jonathan, Cashman and Milbury...
There were several bright spots in the match, Goldring said. Kent Libbey, in third position in foil, and Stan Samkange, who substituted in foil, had their best bouts of the year. Heymen in sabre also made it to the finals, Goldring said...
...wanted something you would build up your savings, usually for a down payment, then go into debt for the rest. But exploding inflation has changed all that. Whereas their parents took ten years to furnish their homes, today's young people do it in two weeks." Adds Stan Benson, a Los Angeles consumer credit counselor: "It is not unusual to see a 26-year-old come in here already $10,000 to $12,000 in debt, with an average take-home pay of $1,000 a month, and owing that amount to ten or 15 creditors...
Tired of driving to work bumper to bumper? Envious of those zigzagging Corvettes, Porsches and Ferraris that smoke past you in the fast lane? Well, cheer up, bunkies. Last week on a dry lake bed at California's Edwards Air Force Base, Hollywood Stunt Man Stan Barrett, 36, drove a car at 739.666 m.p.h. to become the first person ever to break the sound barrier on land. Barrett's car will not be in showrooms quite yet. The three-wheel vehicle was powered by a rocket engine as well as a Sidewinder missile to throw it into supersonic...