Word: tatum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Arthur ("Art") Tatum, 46, beefy, almost-blind jazz piano master (Tea for Two, Wee Baby Blues, Sweet Lorraine), who knew and played classical piano as well as he did boogie, worked out a complex, polyrhythmic style somewhere in between, backed it up with a technique considered the best in jazz; of uremia; in Los Angeles. Jazzman Tatum slugged down enormous quantities of beer as he played, preferred to work solo ("A band hampers me"). The late, great Fats Waller once commented : "That Tatum ... is just too good...
...Georgia Tech shredded a beefy but inexperienced Auburn line, shook its fleet backs loose on long scoring strikes, won going away, 28-7. Mississippi was knocked from the undefeated ranks by an underdog Tulane team, 10-3. North Carolina finally won its first game under its new coach, Jim Tatum, by defeating (34-6) Tatum's former team, Maryland -which has taken almost nothing but beatings since Tatum left...
...North Carolina's Jim Tatum made his homecoming debut as head coach, and fell flat on his face as North Carolina State ran all over the Tarheels for the first time in 14 years. Score...
...Winthrop: James A. Bailey, Robert E. Barnett, Matthew W. Botsford, Jr., Peter K. Gunness, Benjamin H. Heckscher, and Ronald W. Tatum...
...Crimson Key has elected the following officers for 1956-57, Vince Larson, president, announced yesterday. Ronald W. Tatum '57 and Richard F. Larsen '58, both of Winthrop House, will be the new president and vice president...