Word: guido
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Steve Allen Plymouth Show (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). New time, same old sparkle from Steve. With at least one engaging visitor: Pat ("Guido Panzini") Harrington Jr. Color...
...strangely, the crowd is always close to capacity. This week the Black Hawk is edging into its tenth year as one of the nation's top resorts for modern jazz, the club that launched such cool cats as Dave Brubeck and Gerry Mulligan. Says CoOwner Guido Caccienti: "I've struggled for years to keep this place a sewer...
...awful conditions have steadily deteriorated since the fall of 1949, when Guido and a boyhood pal named Johnny Noga scraped up $10,000 to go to a sheriff's sale and buy a bankrupt nightclub. Guido deployed his wife Eleanor at the cash register, Johnny married Helen, the head waitress, and they began to book some musical acts. Along with Brubeck and Mulligan, jazz stars as well as pop singers drifted into the Hawk-Chet Baker, Miles Davis, Erroll Garner, Dorothy Dandridge, Johnny Mathis. Regulars remember how Eleanor Caccienti refused to ring the cash register when Dizzy Gillespie...
This week Guide's noiseless cash registers are ringing up drinks and entrance fees to a brisk rhythm, the music of Vibraphonist Cal Tjader and his jazz quartet (quickly convertible to a bongo-congo Latin quintet with the addition of a crack drummer named "Mongo"). Says Owner Guido: "We give the customers good jazz. The musicians we don't bother. We never walked around with big cigars and said, 'I'm Mister Black Hawk and won't you sit at my table, musician?' They can look right across the room when they play...
John E. Gausted '59, of Winthrop House and Minneapolis, Minn., Charles L. Glenn Jr. '59, of Eliot House and Washington, D.C., Guido G. Goldman '59, of Winthrop House and New York City, Robert Goldman '59, of Winthrop House and Far Rockaway, N.Y., Thomas L. Gritzka '59, of Dunster House and Portland, Ore., John M. Gross '59, of Leverett House and Brookline, Victor W. Guillemin '59, of Leverett House and Oak Park, III., Robert C. Hartshorne '58, of Kirkland House and Cambridge, Gregory M. Harvey '59, of Kirkland House and Morristown, N.Y., Ralph H. Henderson '60, of Kirkland House and Pleasantville...