Word: whelp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...favorite Jackson trick is to imitate-without breaking stride-the style of such pianists as Erroll Garner, George Shearing or Oscar Peterson. "I can talk to Pete Rugolo in his métier," says he, "or to Count Basie in his or to Lenny Bernstein. Maybe not to Lawrence Whelp...
...dusty barrens of the Panhandle a few years after the Civil War. An old range-runner (Wiseman), mad with grief and battles, spreads a sinister story that a dark-skinned girl (Hepburn) adopted by the long-dead father of the rancher-hero (Lancaster) is really a "red-hide whelp," a papoose the father rescued from a massacre of Kiowas. The hero asks his mother (Gish) if the tale is true. He is shattered when she says it is. Nevertheless, even though he hates Indians as only a man can whose father has been killed by them, he defends the little...