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...unemployed high school dropout named Marquette Frye was arrested for drunken driving. In six days of rioting, 35 died, 900 were injured. In 1966, the Cleveland ghetto of Hough erupted when a white bartender denied a glass of ice water to a Negro patron. And in Newark, N.J., a trumpet-playing Negro cab driver by the name of John Smith last week became the random spark that ignited the latest-and one of the most violent-of U.S. race riots...
...trim, bearded Ellis lunged about the stage whipping the music to a demonic pitch, molding the arrangements on the spot by cuing his men in and out with shouts and hand signals. Occasionally, he pivoted and loosed a flock of high-flying notes from a specially made four-valve trumpet that enables him to play 24 tones in an octave, rather than the usual twelve...
...battle plan, according to a well-documented biography of Reno, Faint the Trumpet Sounds, Custer gave the major three companies to attack the south end of the camp, keeping five companies for himself, which Reno thought Custer would use to support him if he ran into heavy opposition. Reno's force of 112 officers and men had barely forded the Little Big Horn River when at least 500 Indians hit the front line and left flank. No relief force was in sight, and Reno ordered his men to dismount and fight on foot. Against odds as high...
...years at Harper, Executive Vice President Thomas, 46, has carved a unique niche in hard-cover journalism. To Svetlana's memoirs, Thomas can add such glittering editorial credits as Maxwell Taylor's The Uncertain Trumpet, Matthew Ridgway's Soldier, John Gardner's Excellence, Chester Bowles's Ambassador's Report, Merriman Smith's Thank You, Mr. President, William Attwood's The Reds and The Blacks, Theodore Sorensen's Kennedy and William Manchester's The Death of a President. Only as a sideline does Thomas edit a few novelists, including John Cheever...
...Jimmy Porter's character is his willingness to exploit emotions. He'll do anything say anything, to provoke his wife or his mistress or his pal to a strong response. So he burns people with irons and brags about old mistresses in front of new ones. He plays the trumpet terribly and eternally. All so that someone will react with a hit or a kiss. Silberg missed that recklessness...