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...always came and sat on the piano bench." He had his own combos in high school and college (Virginia State, where he majored in music), then headed for New York in 1943 (he was medically exempt from war service). Two days after arriving, he landed a job with Ben Webster's band. Soon he was playing with such performers as Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker. Finally he established himself as a soloist in Manhattan's plush East Side nighteries as well as clubs on the bop frontier of "The Street" (West 52nd Street...
...Bennett Webster, a lawyer and Republican county chairman in Iowa, may have an accurate instinct for popular sentiment: "The majority of people feel impeachment is too drastic, that the country can't stand it. It's more a fear of the unknown than anything else-a deep-seated fear of a radical proceeding." Says Thomas Campbell, a professor of history at Cleveland State University: "An impeachment process would disrupt the country, and we can't afford it. I'm concerned about other problems in the country-the monetary crisis, the food and housing difficulties...
...Angeles ∎Try Webster's New International Dictionary, Second Edition (Unabridged...
Hedi had spent all day rehearsing him on the fine points of an English tea. Except, that is, for the sugar tongs: Solti squeezed them too tightly, and his sugar cube popped into the breast pocket of Covent Garden's administrator, the late Sir David Webster...
Calder is one of 170 representatives of the Southwestern Company, a subsidiary of the Los Angeles Times-Mirror Corporation. He has traveled around the country all winter, recruiting college students to peddle this summer a special edition of Webster's New World Dictionary...