Word: tilling
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...member of the Holiness Church in Los Angeles, permitted only church music in the home, so Mingus was eight before he even knew jazz existed. One night he secretly turned on his father's radio and heard Ellington. He took to playing first the trombone, then the cello, till Veteran Bassist Red Callender got him to start on the bass...
...That's so," said Dick, soberly. "I never thought how awful ignorant I was till...
...usually stay till 6:30 or 7 to see a dummy of the front page. But two or three times a week I'll stay down till the first edition comes out-about 9:30. That means I get out about 10 o'clock. I always stay Wednesday night because my wife goes to bridge club, and usually Monday night too. On the nights that I don't stay I always try to check the first edition before I go to bed. It's delivered to my home about 11 o'clock...
...foul. At last, in 1960, there was something worth cheering about: under Manager Paul Richards, that old shrewdie, the Orioles flew all the way up to second place. In 1961, after a bad start, they won 95 games-a club record. Aha, said the never-die fans-just wait till next year. But then Richards quit to become general manager of the Houston Colts, and the job of winning a pennant went to Billy Hitchcock, softhearted Southerner who had never managed a big-league team...
...look at the Sunday sports pages until the telecast is over. They don't care in Pittsburgh, either. After the Steelers lost their second straight exhibition to the Browns last week, one rooter groaned: "The season hasn't even started, and already we're waiting till next year...