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...back & forth on a raised platform in the center of a big oval bar. Thirty-five-year-old Marian, long, lean and suntanned, sits at the baby grand with an inward look in her eyes as her fingers ripple easily over the keyboard. Behind her are her solid sidemen, Bass Fiddler Bob Carter and Drummer Joe Morello, flicking out accompaniments. The result is some of the cleanest, most inventive "progressive" jazz to be heard anywhere...
Divorced. By Ella Fitzgerald, 35, buxom Negro jazz songstress (A Tisket, A Tasket): her second husband, Bass Fiddle Player Ray Brown, 33; after almost five years of marriage, no children; in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico...
Died. Darrell Fancourt, 65, famed British D'Oyly Carte bass-baritone, best known for his title role in Gilbert & Sullivan's The Mikado, which he sang more than 3,000 times; in London...
...fisherman for votes the country has ever had." As Nixon finished his brief speech. Press Secretary James C. Hagerty and Presidential Assistant C. D. Jackson set before the President an anniversary gift from the Cabinet and the White House staff: two dozen assorted fishing lures mounted on velvet. A bass lure with two gangs of hooks got loose and snagged the press secretary's navy blue silk trousers...
After his 1928 graduation, Kennedy took both an engineering and a business masters degree at the University, and in 1940 became an assistant dean in charge of sophomores. In his class report of about that time, listed "fishing for bass" as his outdoor hobby. But his outdoor interests have become less, not more sedentary over the years, in remarkable contrast to old clubhouse dictum ("when thou become forty, thou shalt play nothing but golf"). A couple of years ago, he took up ski racing, careful to protect himself with short or "goon" skis. "I used to ski on the long...