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...Alabama Air National Guard, as the man "in charge of tactical air operations" for the invasion. Doster, said Hutchison, has "plenty to tell." But instead of telling, Doster referred newsmen to Albert C. Persons, managing editor of the Birmingham Examiner, and cousin of retired Army Major General Wilton B. Persons, who was President Eisenhower's top legislative liaison aide...
...grew up together in the rock 'n' roll atmosphere of Houston, Texas. Their music is definitely in the bluesy, "funky" tradition which dominates jazz today, but unlike others, they are not content simply to imitate Horace Silver and Cannonball Adderley. The most gifted member of the group is Wilton Felder, who is the first really exciting thing to happen to the tenor saxophone since Sonny Rollins came out of retirement a couple of years ago. Felder, at the age of 21, has already developed a unique style, as tough as David Newman's but in a different way. Felder...
...WILTON S. DILLON University of Ghana Legon, Ghana...
...Specialty. Son of a bank cashier, Harold Lee Giesler (pronounced Geese-ler) was born in Wilton Junction, Iowa. He was about to go to the University of Michigan when he developed eye trouble and went instead to Los Angeles, where he drove a horse-drawn lumber wagon. Soon he began studying law at U.S.C. and clerking in the office of Earl Rogers, a flamboyant attorney who was a kind of Edwardian Giesler. Rogers nicknamed him Jerry, and the young attorney got some of his first courtroom experience helping Rogers successfully defend Clarence Darrow against a charge of bribing jurors...
...basic facts are historical: the Queen actually did send the Sultan a fabulous, animated Baroque organ under the guidance of a court musician from Lancashire, and England's trading power in the East did at that point increase. Mr. Smith has, on his own, made the musician, Jack Wilton (Robert Trehy), fall in love with a lady of the court. Queen Elizabeth (Blanche Thebom) ships Wilton off to Turkey to avoid permitting a misalliance with his inamorata Lady Anne (Doris Yarick). There the michievous Sultan (played to perfection by an appropriately ponderous Ezio Flagello) imprisons Jack in order to keep...