Word: yarding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yard Punch...
...July 30 Yard Punch...
Death of a Poet. Author Holmes, a leading member of San Francisco's Beat Generation, makes the usual novelist's disclaimer: his characters are not real people. Still, reading his book, any sensitive cat might think of someone like Tenor Saxman Lester Young or Charley ("Yard-bird") Parker (who died in 1955 at the age of 35 because he behaved too much like Edgar Pool). The prototype for Geordie. The Horn's No. 1 chick, might be someone like Jazz Singer Billie Holiday. Actually, the resemblances are not important. This is a standard jazz story and, beyond...
...Yard Punch, as usual...
...ferreting out this personality, the Summer news will focus its attention on those motives which inspire this student to enter the Yard gates with thanksgiving and sometimes misgiving...