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...sponsorship deal in history. To help operate and supply the Games and train U.S. athletes, scores of firms have donated upwards of $180 million to the U.S. Olympic Committee and the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee. The companies will spend an additional $500 million on advertising and promotion to trumpet their participation in the hope of boosting prestige and profits. Most sponsors claim to be confident of being paid back amply in public good will and employee morale. Says Xerox Spokesman Sandy Lanzarotta: "If there is anything in the world positive to be associated with, it is the Olympics." Adds...
...graduate notes the disturbing underside of the pervasive freedom on campus then. "Harvard assumed you were ready for freedom, whether or not you were," says Rintel, whose works include Clarence Darrow on Broadway, and the television screenplay of Gideon's Trumpet. "Harvard says, in effect, 'you do whatever you want while you're here.' And I did. I played poker every night and didn't go to class nearly enough. I drifted Advice was there only if you actively looked for it. It's easy to slip through the crack," he says. Finally after his freshman year. Rintels took time...
...freshman year was going, with three of my brothers, to a dance at Paul Revere Hall in the Mechanics Building around New Years. What made this very different from the tea dances my classmates might attend at the Copley Plaza was that my brothers and I and a trumpet player named Max Eaminsky were the only white people in the crowd welcoming Louis Armstrong for his first Boston appearance...
...help MacLaine aboard-"She was so sweet and kind," the star said-though Targa also unfurled her trunk and snatched up most of MacLaine's chocolate birthday cake. Perhaps the most exuberant event was the Broadway song and dance itself. MacLaine showed off her Joshua's-trumpet voice, her 50-year-old legs-"25 each," one appreciative observer remarked-and an appendage that has been with her so often of late that it has come to seem a part of her, the at-long-last Oscar that she won for Endearment...
...Basie was playing along in F," recalled one of his men. "He hollered at me that he was going to switch to D-flat and for me to 'set something.' I started playing that opening reed riff on alto. Hot Lips Page jumped in with the trumpet part without any trouble, and Dan Minor thought up the trombone part. That was it." That was One O'Clock Jump...