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...belle descended from Pocahontas, Edith Galt entered Wilson's circle through her friendship with his daughter, married the World War I President in the White House on the eve of the hard-fought 1916 election campaign, became his cherished confidante during the taxing war years, shared both his triumphant postwar tour of Europe and his futile U.S. tour to drum up support for the League of Nations, was his constant companion-and for several weeks the only non-doctor to see him-after he was felled by a stroke in October 1919, jealously guarded his failing health until...
...rewarded with a special American accolade, a sustained roar that lasted for twelve minutes and through ten curtain calls. Never, confessed the Commander later, had she "heard such sound from the throats of an audience"-and rarely had a modern audience heard such sound from a singer. In her triumphant Met debut-in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor-Soprano Joan Sutherland demonstrated even to the doubters that she is the most accomplished technician in all opera...
...brews he poured from the bandstand for 15 wonderful years (1923-38). Composer Henderson (whose "frustration" was that his greatest success came as an arranger with Goodman rather than as a leader) collected the most extraordinarily gifted group of sidemen in jazz history, and most of them are on triumphant display-Trumpeters Louis Armstrong and Roy Eldridge, Saxmen Coleman Hawkins and Benny Carter, Trombonists J. C. Higginbotham and Dicky Wells. Among the treasures: Wang Wang Blues, Christopher Columbus, Henderson's own exuberant Can You Take...
...COULDN'T BE DONE?" "RELAX, FELLAS-YOU'RE HOME NOW." A five-man band struck up Take Me Out to the Ball Game, and sturdy fans in the welcoming committee hoisted Manager Gene Mauch on their shoulders and carried him off at the head of a triumphant procession. "It's unbelievable," said Mauch, tears rolling down his cheeks...
...stadiums for some 35 purple years; following surgery; in Manhattan. A onetime bellhop from the Lower East Side, Balogh brought "class" to his profession by introducing the soup-and-fish and the comparative adjective (his variation on the ungrammatical "best-man-win" theme: "May the better participant emerge triumphant"), in 1935 capped a lifelong battle against race hate by imploring an inflamed crowd at the Primo Carnera-Joe Louis bout: "Leave us all view this contest without anchor or prejudism...