Word: stewart
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...typical jazzmen's drinking contest of the Prohibition era. Through the night, Cornetist Rex Stewart and Trombonist Joe Nanton matched half pints of gin with each other-and a referee. By 9 a.m., the only one left standing was the referee, who happened to be Bandleader Duke Ellington. Recalling the incident last year in his autobiography Music is my Mistress, Ellington wrote, "I don't drink booze any more. I retired undefeated champ about 30 years...
...work and write comprehensive files on the Palestinian liberation movement and the political repercussions of the week's violence. Photographer Eddie Adams headed to 'Ain el Hilweh, a refugee camp that had been hit by Israeli planes, where he was guarded closely by armed commandos. Correspondent William Stewart, a journalistic veteran of Viet Nam and India-Pakistan combat, also visited 'Ain el Hilweh with TIME'S Abu Said. They poked through the ruins and talked with bitter but resolute Palestinians...
...film is far more than a treasury of the familiar. Indeed, its wildest moments are from that forgotten cloudland of the '30s and '40s when every performer was expected to carry a tune. In Born to Dance, Jimmy Stewart reaches for a high note and almost pulls it down; Clark Gable gives Idiot's Delight its few moments of radiance; a klutzy but indomitable Joan Crawford steps her way up from The Hollywood Revue...
Allan Littman, 17, consumed a pound of grapes, with seeds, in 52 sec. to crush the old mark of 65 sec. Allan Greenberg, 22, twirled a record album on his forefinger for 5 hr. Bruce Stewart and Robert Argust slapped each other's faces for 31 hr. to top the old record by one hour. Frank Dolce blew 116 smoke rings on one drag to break the old high...
...Edward J. Hartley, president of Allegheny Ludlum Steel: Franklin J. Lunding, retired finance committee chairman of the Jewel Companies. Inc. grocery and food chain; and R. Stewart Rauch Jr., chairman of the Philadelphia Saving Fund Society...