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First, balloon-shaped Meade Lux Lewis and Pete Johnson faced each other across grand pianos. Then came Erroll Garner, and finally big Art Tatum, his almost sightless eyes turned to the wall. If Birdland, Manhattan's midtown mecca of jive, wanted to put on a representative "parade" of jazz pianists last week, it could hardly have found four ivory ticklers with more varying styles...
...Tatum, 42, the old master of the swing era, and a pair of smooth-sounding sidemen riffed through Sweet Sue and Sweet Lorraine. His right hand rippled all over the keyboard, but the overall effect was one of sophistication rather than pandemonium...
Killed in Action. Lieut, (j.g.) David Tatum, 24, U.S. Navy jet-fighter pilot and the courageous conscience of TIME'S com posite 1950 Fighting Man of the Year (TIME, Jan. 1, 1951); while on a routine heckling mission during which his Panther jet fighter, based on the carrier Valley Forge, was hit by flak, crashed and exploded on a mountain ten miles west of Wonsan, North Korea...
...foster children, sullen and bitter beyond their years, would be the undoing of any more conventional home. Jane (Iris Mann), 13, is a rejected, distrustful child of divorced parents. The somewhat younger Jimmy-John (Clifford Tatum Jr.) wears braces for a leg deformity which, in setting him apart from other children, has sent him into a chronic bellicose silence...
...Blue Angel, one block north, has just imported Charles Trenet, the new Maurice Chevalier. Cafe Society, down at Sheridan Square, has a trio of Art Tatum, Slam Stewart, and Everett Barksdale...