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...band, featuring such Ellington stalwarts as Johnny Hodges, Cootie Williams and Juan Tizol. But after bassist Jimmie Blanton and tenor-sax man Ben Webster signed on in 1939 and '40, it became the leader's best ever. The compelling evidence is on these three discs, on tracks like Cotton Tail, Ko-Ko, Jack the Bear and Harlem Air-Shaft. Individual glories abound, but the band's chief glory remains the nonpareil jazz composer whose instrument it was: the Duke himself...
...early lead, ace Shawn Haviland, on the heels of another Ivy Pitcher of the Week honor, could not cage the high-flying Eagles. After retiring the side in order in the first, Haviland ran into trouble in the second, surrendering four runs on three hard hits. The tail end of the lineup did most of the damage. Number eight hitter Ryne Reynoso drove in the tying run with a double and Pete Frates followed with a two-run single up the middle. “We really wanted to go after the Beanpot today,” Haviland said...
...south Louisiana and someone says "Pinch the tail, suck the head," here's what you need to know: they're simply trying to teach you the best way to eat a boiled crawfish (or crayfish, as they're known outside Louisiana). And there'll be plenty of that going on at the annual Breaux Bridge Crawfish Festival (bbcrawfest.com), held from May 5-7. Nicknamed "mudbugs" because of their natural habitat in the mud of the southern state's bayou or creeks, crawfish were once scorned as food for the poor. Today, however, they've been proudly adopted as a Cajun...
...week's test had been postponed six times because of bad weather and failures in the X-15's telemetry and electrical systems. Even as the mother plane carried it above the Mojave Desert, groundlings were quoting odds that the X-15, with wings little bigger than a Cadillac tail fin, would "drop like a rock" when released...
...Later he explained that he had restrained himself because "if I'd goofed, it would have looked kind of sour.") Testing his controls with a wide, lazy-S turn, Crossfield, following procedure, jettisoned the X-15's ventral tailfin, which would have interfered with extending his tail landing skids. He zeroed in on the lake bed, cutting his air speed from 285 m.p.h. to 185 with three nose-up "porpoising" maneuvers. The X-15 touched effortlessly onto the lake bed, slid 4,600 ft. to a dust-raising stop. Said Test Pilot Crossfield, father of five: "I hope...