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Died. Charles ("Pee Wee") Russell, 62, sad-faced but joyful jazz clarinetist, who wailed with Eddie Condon and a host of other Dixieland greats of the '30s and '40s, and in the past decade delighted audiences on four continents by blending his basic blues style with the experimental sounds of Thelonious Monk and Ornette Coleman; of pancreatitis; in Washington...
...surprising to find that Cavanagh and DeMichele have been playing together for ten years. They started together on a pee-wee team, and progressed through high-school. They separated for a year to different prep-schools before combining again last year on the freshman team...
Other words came right out of old Scotch-Irish dialect-wee for small, kimmie for man, tweed for young man, deek for look at. Still other words were borrowed from the Porno Indians, who moved off to a reservation after an early settler set up his general store in the middle of their camping ground. A few words are corruptions of French, like gorm (gourmand...
From the deck of the little 350-ton Arbella plowing westward through the angry Atlantic to the Massachusetts coast in 1630, John Winthrop preached a sermon that struck the theme of what America in all its future years would seek to be. "Wee shall be," Winthrop prophesied, "as a Citty upon a Hill, the Eies of all people are uppon us; soe that if wee shall deale falsely with our god in this worke wee have undertaken and soe cause him to withdrawe his present help from us, wee shall be made a story and a byword through the world...
Turco's hockey career started in the Pee Wee program also, but he had begun skating at the age of three. He played varsity football, baseball, and hockey for Melrose High School, and then applied and was accepted at Harvard. He decided, however, that he wanted to take an extra year at prep school, and so he deferred his acceptance at Harvard for one year...