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Ellington Uptown (Columbia...
...trumpets could play with the fluency of flutes, its saxophones with the sweetness of strings. Moreover, the adventurous arrangements made music instead of noise. Columbia has now issued Lunceford Special, an LP containing eight characteristic numbers, from the early (1934), hectic White Heat to such sophisticated selections as Uptown Blues and Chopin's Prelude...
...York instead. When they ran short of cash, they staged a three-minute raid on a Bronx bank, got $12,680. Early one morning this week, eleven days after the escape, 31 New York police, armed with tear gas, a tommy gun, service revolvers, broke into a seventh-floor uptown apartment. On a bed stood Joseph Nolen, naked to the waist, one hand behind his back. Crouched behind a dresser with a revolver was Ballard. Schuer, terrified, hid under the bed with a woman. Two other women hid behind a bathroom shower curtain. As Joseph; whipped out a revolver...
House Guest. In Newport News, Va., Bobby Aycock, 42, turned over to police by a married couple who came home and found him asleep in their bed, explained: "I guess I lost my way. I normally sleep about eight blocks farther uptown...
...Alex M. Hammer, Jr., secretary of the Club, over one-quarter of the membership has replied favorably to a questionnaire he sent out two weeks ago. The document asks whether members would: 1) Like to have club quarters of their own? 2) If so, would they prefer an uptown or downtown location? 3) If not, would they like to have a room set aside in the University Club for their...