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SALT AND PEPPER (Impulse). On the theory that two tenor saxes are better than one, Sonny Stitt and Paul Gonsalves spur each other to new heights in Salt and Pepper, S'posin' and Perdido, though Stitt, a lively and eloquent musical descendant of Lester Young, outplays the darker, deeper-voiced Gonsalves...
...evening concert didn't really begin until after the intermission. Maynard Ferguson's screaming orchestra, joined by altoist Sonny Stitt, performed well enough, but the Gerry Mulligan Quartet played listlessly and uninterestingly. It remained for Joe Williams, the blues singer who struck out on his own from the Basie band two years ago, to get the entire crown of 9000 out of its seats and into the aisles, dancing. By the time Williams had finished his fourth song, Come Back, Baby, the audience was standing, and after his fifth, All God's Children Got Swing, almost everyone...
Seminaries also compete-fiercely-for "name" theologians; Austin's President David Stitt complains that "it's worse than the used-car business." Perhaps the most ambitious talent-raiding these days is done by Chicago, which recently has signed up Paul Tillich from Harvard. Langdon Gilkey from Vanderbilt. Charles Stinnette from Union, and Joseph Haroutunian from nearby McCormick Theological Seminary (although it lost Lutheran Church Historian Jaroslav Pelikan to Yale...
...although he concedes that "some colored cats bitched" when he added white Saxophonist Lee Konitz to his group. (In jazz argot, the pressure applied by Negro bigots to Negroes who will not subscribe to Crow Jim is called Crow Crow; its opposite is Jim Jim.) Says Negro Saxophonist Sonny Stitt: "Man. if a guy can play, that's all that counts. I don't care if his skin is purple, orange or chartreuse...
...grownups joined in. Somebody handed the candidate's smiling wife a massive bouquet of four dozen roses, and as the cheers continued Henry Cabot Lodge, the G.O.P.'s choice for vice president, raised his arms to form a V. "This was Nixon territory," Illinois' Congresswoman Marguerite Stitt Church boomed into the microphone. "Now it's also Lodge territory...