Word: wee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cutty and Zutty were there. So were Peanuts, Woody, Yank, Wingy, Red, Pee Wee and Willie the Lion.* Sammy Davis Jr. was supposed to come, but he pleaded "fatigue" at the last minute and didn't show. Just as well: he would have seemed out of place at this reunion of jazz's elder statesmen, come to celebrate one of their...
...Trombonist Robert ("Cutty") Cutshall; Trumpeters John ("Yank") Lawson, Henry ("Red") Allen, Joseph ("Wingy") Manone; Drummer Arthur ("Zutty") Singleton; Clarinetists Charles ("Pee Wee") Russell, Michael ("Peanuts") Hucko; Bandleader Wood-row ("Woody") Herman; Pianist Willie ("The Lion") Smith...
...Troublemaker is an avant-gardish comedy geared to the perceptions of bearded anarchists. But for half of its 80-minute length, practically anyone can enjoy it. Anyone, at least, who is reasonably irresponsible, mad about old movies, and perhaps a wee bit crazy in the first place. Written and directed by Theodore J. Flicker, onetime entrepreneur of a Greenwich Village coffee-and-show house known as The Premise, the movie tells of young Jack Armstrong (Tom Aldredge) who arrives in An Unidentified City-the one substantial clue to its whereabouts is a Statue of Liberty in the harbor-and tries...
...Prime Minister last week put on the liveliest show since Bonnie Prince Charlie battled through their misty glens in 1745. In Dalguise and Dunkeld, Amulree and Buchanty, and scores of other grey hamlets and market towns, Sir Alec Douglas-Home shook hands with shepherds and shopkeepers, downed a wee drappie with farmers, popped into cottages, schools and smithies. The Prime Minister even took a noble pratfall in the mud as he was scrambling up a haycart to address the folk in sleepy Dunning. "Well," he grinned, getting to his feet, "it's better to fall now than later...
...wee hours the square was quiet but mysterious goings-on continued elsewhere. The last event reported was the materialization of bathroom tissue on the walls of Comstock's dining hall...