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When Jazz Impresario George Wein heard these lines, hastily composed by Poet Langston Hughes last week, he "bawled like a baby." Most of the backers of the Newport Jazz Festival bawled with him. When the biggest jazz bash in the country was closed down in the wake of drunken rioting, with 12,000 college students finally tamed by the state police, National Guard and the U.S. Marines, the backers figured to lose $150,000 in advance ticket sales, not to mention the festival's glamorous name...
...week's end Wein & Co. were singing a sprightlier tune. Performing jazzmen and local merchants were not pressing for their bills, ticket holders might be refunded with jazz albums instead of cash, and so it looked as if the festival would just about break even. While power shovels scooped heaps of beer cans off the streets, talk about permanent cancellation ("This means the end of the Newport Jazz Festival," Founder Louis L. Lorillard had said in the dark weekend hours) had all but disappeared...
...brick Sheraton Hotel in French Lick, Ind. to blow to an audience sprawled on the lawns and perched in the surrounding oak trees, and in Toronto for a four-day blow at Exhibition Park. Both shindigs, together with the Boston Jazz Festival, are the handiwork of Newport Impresario George Wein, who advertises his various wares under the slogan, "Have Festival, Will Travel." Survivors of Newport are also expected this summer in the eucalyptus-fringed Hollywood Bowl (the First Annual Los Angeles Jazz Festival), New York City's Randall's Island (the Randall's Island Jazz Festival...
Ralph Marterie and his band will play for the formal Saturday night dance on Jubilee Weekend, O. Y. Lewis '62, chairman of the Freshman Jubilee Committee, announced yesterday. Earlier this term, the committee had signed a contract with George Wein and the Storyville band for the Friday night dance...
Leyland said last night that Council President Edward M. Abramson '57 had approved his request for a recount. He added that other candidates besides Wein-stock might ask a re-tally. Although the Council does not release election figures, the votes for some places were reported-ly as close as two or three ballots...