Word: tatum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Negro was led to the piano. He seated himself, cocked his head to one side and played three smashing chords. Then he was off in a cascade of flashing arpeggios which resolved themselves into the haunting strains of Jerome Kern's Yesterdays. After a two-year absence, Art Tatum was back in Manhattan...
André and his parents arrived in the U.S. ten years ago. As a conservatory student in his native Berlin, he learned about the old masters. In Los Angeles he heard a jazz record by famed Pianist Art Tatum and "went on a mad Tatum kick for four years." José Iturbi heard Andre playing boogie, got him to arrange the boogie pieces for his Holiday in Mexico. M-G-M signed Andre just after he graduated from high school, put him on studio chores- everything from playing the piano for rehearsals to "watching sink" (synchronizing the film with...
...best white pro teams in the U.S. A crowd of 17,823 jammed into Chicago Stadium to see the fun. At halftime, the Trotters were trailing 32-23, and blamed it on being "tensed up"; they had played five games in five nights and were a little tired. Goose Tatum wasn't having much luck against towering (6 ft. 9) George Mikan, the glamor boy of college basketball two years ago. But in the third quarter, Tatum and his mates began to loosen...
Only once did the Trotters try any of their tricks. A Trotter rolled the ball between a Minneapolis player's legs to Tatum, who snatched up the ball, whirled and scored a basket. Otherwise they were too busy trying to hold off Mikan (reportedly a $15,000-a-year man), who scored 24 points...
With 90 seconds to play, Tatum was put out on fouls. The score was tied at 59-all and the crowd held its breath as the Globetrotters weaved nearer & nearer the basket. Just before the gun ended the game, the ball was flipped to dead-eye Ermer Robinson, who was in the clear. Ermer didn't miss. Score: Globetrotters 61, Minneapolis 59. Had they tried, the Trotters couldn't have written the script better...