Word: swing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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musical ears last week: Swing King Benny Goodman, who was doing a Series of weekend stands in Manhattan's Basin Street nightclub. Playing in an octet (including Trumpeter Ruby Braff, Trombonist Urbie Green. Tenor Saxman Paul Quinichette), Clarinetist Goodman occasionally seemed to be dreaming of other years, other sounds-and the jampacked crowd included many greying swing cats who could dream with him. But his playing revealed none of the tenseness that took him out of his ill-fated tour with Louis Armstrong (TIME, April 27, 1953), and little of the formality of his concert appearances with symphony orchestras...
...Communist Russia and imperialist Britain. Roosevelt saw his own role as balancing between them, thus keeping the Grand Alliance intact through his own skillful brokerage. Aware of what Roosevelt and his advisers were doing, Churchill had to half-muzzle himself. If he opposed the Russians too strongly, Roosevelt would swing to their side. At one point in the Yalta proceedings, the record shows that Harry Hopkins slipped Rcosevelt a note: "The Russians have given in so much at this conference that I don't think we should let them down. Let the British disagree if they want to." Admiral...
...United Country Party, the first significant step toward organized political thought in colonial Kenya. Opposing him is an extremist group called the Federal Independence Party. So far, most white Kenyans refuse to join either party, preferring to keep their political opinions to themselves. Blundell counts on events to swing his way before Kenya's first two-party elections in 1956. "We have our hotheads," he says. "But the solid mass of people must have learned some lesson from the Mau Mau. They will be with us, when the time comes...
Group May Swing Back...
...market (price per share: $550). The new bank will be known as First National City Bank of New York, with Shepherd staying on as chairman and Nagle becoming chairman of the executive committee. Its total resources will be more than $7 billion. National City already has the money to swing the deal: last October it raised $132 million with the biggest stock financing ever undertaken by a bank...