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...album, The Paul Butterfield Blues Band (Elektra), he not only blows a wild-sweet harp but also shows that he is one of the best young bluesmen around by singing the likes of Shake Your Money-Maker and Thank You Mr. Poobah, vigorously backed by guitars, drums, organ and bass...
...gossip columns and society pages like a butterfly. There were self-deprecating chortles ("My profile looks like a fish") and gag-filled larks (the papers ran a picture of him playing an accordion in a combo with Greer Garson on maracas, Danny Kaye on bass and Cesar Romero on fiddle). He dubbed the piano score for a film (I've Always Loved You) and collected $85,000 for the three days' work. His RCA Victor records sold so well that he called his place "The House That Victor Built...
...Bass's letter is the most intelligent, serious, and substantive of the lot. He makes some valid criticisms of my article. However, I am reluctant to credit the Nieman year with the development of 14 Pulitzer prize-winners, as the program inducts only the best young newspapermen after they are well on their...
There are many more examples than these. Jack Bass and Bob Maynard, quoted in Ardery's article, can speak for themselves. Here, however, it must be noted that Jack also included a course in American poetry in his first term (and what direct relevance Merle Fainsod's course has to covering the South Carolina political scene is beyond me). And Bob took course in fine arts and music. In fact, in leaving out these two courses from Maynard's list, Ardery seemed to be setting him up as the specialist he was obviously not designed to represent in the article...
...purpose of the Nieman program, as outlined in the original grant establishing it, is "to promote and elevate standards of journalism and educate persons deemed especially qualified." Fourteen Pulitizer Prize winners among former Nieman Fellows indicates the program has not been unsuccessful. Jack Bass Nieman Fellow...