Word: armstrongs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was none of the improvised Dixieland so familiar to festivals; nor were there many personal appearances by such great solo showmen as "Satchmo" Armstrong or Gene Krupa. Instead, classics-minded young jazzmen concentrated on the brassy new progressive jazz and the slightly atonal West Coast styles, and played their well-rehearsed arrangements with the cool elegance of conservatory students. Even Stan Kenton's 18-piece (including bongo drums) orchestra had its own smooth brand of progressive beat. But the real stars of the festival were the small, intimate combos that played jazz with a new maturity and subtlety...
...Captain's Table, which chronicled the social perils of a luxury-liner captain adrift in a sea of calculating female passengers. Last week all England was agog over a real-life-setting of The Captain's Table. The captain: a tall, debonair Irishman named James D. Armstrong, master of the 28,000-ton Cunard liner Britannic, The plot: he had been royally sacked by Britain's staid, prosperous Cunard Steamship Co. just a few months before he was due to become master of the Queen Mary, and eventually commodore of the line...
Though neither the captain nor Cunard would elaborate on the charges, word leaked out that the sacking-the first in Cunard's 119-year history-was Cunard's reaction to reports that Captain Armstrong, 55, had shown too much attention to women passengers at the captain's table. That raised the fascinating question of what the captain could possibly have done in a public dining hall to bring down his 3O-year career with Cunard...
...Armstrong Circle Theater (CBS, 10-11 p.m.).-The first trip under the ice at the North Pole by The Nautilus is still the stuff of high adventure, even in a rerun...
...Armstrong linoleum ("It illustrates precisely that a really good approach need never be changed but only varied. Armstrong's promise has never changed. It is what you can do in a house or a room or an attic with imagination and with Armstrong's help...