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...which have gone out of style, such as the wa-wa trumpet mute, Ellington never sounds dated. It is not so much that he has changed with the times; the times are out of breath trying to change with him. With such soloists as Johnny Hodges, Cootie Williams and Cat Anderson, Ellington's orchestra remains the best big band in the world. The Duke closed his set by reading a charming poem, which he composed himself, spoofing racism...
...volunteers feel they have had few glimpses of glory. Many have been racked with illness and bedded down in squalor. They have slogged through colorless tasks, from building chicken houses to digging sewers. They have wrestled with tongue-twisting languages. They have gagged on incredible foods containing everything from cat meat to sheep intestines to fish heads. They have cursed the mistakes of their superiors and muttered in fury at the ignorance and inertia among the natives they are trying to help. Six volunteers have died; 248 quit or were fired...
...want very much to know how you read TIME. Front to back? Back to front? Cover to cover? And any other comments on your enjoyment of TIME will be most welcome (but in non-Swifty terms, please). "There's more than one way to skin a cat," says TIME'S reader research department-categorically...
...British Amateur champion, blew a three-hole lead to England's Mike Bonallak. When night finally fell, the upset-minded British took a 6-3 lead with them into the clubhouse bar. U.S. Team Captain Dick Tufts called a meeting. Said one player: "He really swung the old cat-o-nine-tails...
...Margaret Rutherford, Ltd., having arrived rather late in life at the knowledge that there is one way to skin a tax cat. Endearingly, she has just been paying through the nose all these years, and "we are only, but only, just emerging," she notes, "in a rather sensational way, I must say." "We" includes her husband, Stringer Davis, an actor who appears in many of her films. They live in a sturdy old house in Buckinghamshire, the kind, says Stringer, "where you can shut the door without the tooth mugs falling off the bathroom shelf...