Word: waller
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...took Monk only a year to discover that the pianists he really admired were not in the books?such players as Duke Ellington, Fats Waller, James P. Johnson. By the time he was 14, Monk was playing jazz at hard-times "rent parties" up in Harlem. He soon began turning up every Wednesday for amateur night at the Apollo Theater, but he won so often that he was eventually barred from the show. He was playing stride piano?a single note on the first and third beats of the bar, a chord on the second and fourth. Unable to play...
...glowered at Negro news men, hallooed to white spectators, was once restrained by a bailiff from saun tering over to the jury box to chat with his peers, and with the exaggerated Southern courtliness upon which he so much prides himself, even offered cigars to Prosecutor William L. Waller...
...sooner had this celebrated civil rights murder trial ended in a hung jury, split seven to five for acquittal, than there were murmurs of surprise. Many had expected "Mississippi justice." But that was not the case. Judge Hendrick had presided wisely and fairly. Prosecutor Waller, 37, had won the admiration of Northern newsmen for his aggressive presentation. And Defendant Beckwith had been tried be fore a jury of his peers-even if it was all male, all white, and all Mississippian...
...Word of Caution. On crossexamination, Waller brought out Beckwith's militant segregationist sentiments. Beckwith admitted writing a letter to a Jackson newspaper in which he said: "I shall bend every effort to rid the U.S. of integrationists, whoever and wherever they may be." As Waller read the excerpt, Beckwith leaned forward to caution him solicitously: "I want you to understand; and where there is humor intended, I want you to laugh and smile; and where it is serious, I want you to be serious...
...Brooklyn, N.Y., mathematics; Jay P. Sage, of Lowell House and Ridgewood, N.J., physics; James A. Shapiro, of Leverett House and Chicago, III., English; Martin C. Spechier, of Adams House and Lima, Ohio, social studies; Stepher F. Tobias, of Dunster House and New York, N.Y., Far Eastern languages; David A. Waller, of Kirkland House and Louisville, Ky., English; Peter K. Weston, of Lowell House and Santa Barbara, Calif., history; and Lawrence J. White, of Adams House and Beverly Hills, Calif., economics...