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...occasion was the annual stomp-and-holler staged by SHARE (Share Happily and Reap Endlessly), a charity for retarded children run by 63 Hollywood wives. The bash was wet, gaudy and bawdy, although there were a few touches straight out of the Ottawa Hills, Ohio, High School Junior prom-such as pink and blue balloons, some personally blown up by the wives, which further confused the week-end-on-Venus decor of Hollywood's Moulin Rouge. Costume dress was optional, but most of the folks came in their work clothes-Gary Cooper in Stetson and Levi's, Barbara...
McCoy springs few surprises. A trim, energetic man at 56, he leads his seven-man band through Hot Lips, Basin Street Stomp, and other items of Dixieland "sugar stuff." The arrangements are as predictable as a TV script, and the sound is unexceptional. With his horn in his right hand and his left hand flashing an outsized diamond as he carves out the rhythms, McCoy demonstrates that he can still make a trumpet caterwaul, growl, wail, or punch out notes of brassy clarity...
...pomp. He is an able, creative, precedent-breaking administrator with a rare humility and an ever-present concern for people. He has been readier than any other Pope in memory to leave the Vatican, a man about town who likes nothing better than to dodge his chauffeurs and stomp through Roman streets on his own. They call him "Johnnie Walker...
...students who worked so hard. We have students who come to us as freshmen and are already working toward a Fulbright." Carleton has few distractions; Northfield is sleepily sedate, and the college bans cars, so socializing is mostly of the walk-and-talk kind. Even the occasional big stomp-and-holler has a cloistered flavor; last year Duke Ellington's band was hired, installed in the only building on campus big enough to hold both musicians and students. After a less-than-frantic first set, the Duke apologized: "The boys never played a chapel before. They...
...flourished in the Chicago of the '20s. Soon Big Bill was playing far and wide with the best of them-Benny Goodman, Count Basie, Jimmie Lunceford, Lionel Hampton, Louis Armstrong, Bunk Johnson, Fats Waller. And always there was time to write his own songs: Partnership Woman, House Rent Stomp, Outskirts of Town...