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Milt Jackson bent and swayed over the vibes Saturday night at the Jazz Workshop, sweating and smiling briefly at the audience every time he finished a solo break. And with every note Milt sounded, the Workshop was one note closer to the end of its 15-year-long stint as Boston's prime center for live entertainment...
There seem to be not one but two writers inside the prolific John G Fuller. One has produced sober responsible books on banking and medical research. The other is better known for his hyperthyroid, irresponsible studies of psychic phenomena. In 1965 Fuller, whose various incarnations include a stint as a columnist for the Saturday Review and Emmy Award-winning work as a television producer, published Incident at Exeter. In it he concluded that the unidentified flying objects sighted and reported around the country were of extraterrestrial origin. A year later, he wrote The Interrupted Journey, the preposterous account...
...Crimson finished the stint Friday in Raleigh, with a whitewashing of the Duke Faculty Club women. A 42-year-old former European field hockey player gave Pierpont a fight in the only close match...
...invitation to play in the Carter White House came soon after the Inauguration, but Pianist Vladimir Horowitz took a rain check. For his second stint at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue (he first played there in 1931 for Herbert Hoover), the maestro wanted to celebrate the 50th anniversary of his U.S. debut. And so he did, last week, thundering out fortissimi to an audience packed with the likes of Isaac Stern, Andrés Segovia and Mstislav Rostropovich. Carter, recalling the cherished Horowitz recording he had as a midshipman, said of his guest artist: "A true national treasure...
...electrical engineer's son who worked his way through Harvard waiting on tables and selling newspapers, Ather ton earned a master's degree in history in 1947. When he joined the foreign service, he had an eye on a career in Eu rope. After a stint in West Germany, he was transferred to State's Near Eastern and South Asian bureau-NEA in Foggy Bottom shorthand-and given assignments in Damascus and the Syrian city of Aleppo in the turbulent 1950s. While based in Syria, Atherton defied an unwritten State Department rule by taking a vacation...