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...Carnegie Hall been so jammed-and never so racked by such raucous music. The 200 fans on stage had the most tranquil spot: they were behind the brass. But out in front, the louder it got, the better they liked it. And no band yet had outblown Stan Kenton's for sheer...
...wasn't swing: toothy Stan Kenton had already pronounced that "dead, gone, finished." Some doubted that it was even jazz: it had a shifty beat (and sometimes none), little-if any-form, and even less improvisation. Most of it sounded like Duke Ellington with the D.T.s. But when Kenton's band got to pushing out such huge, screeching blotches of sound as Artistry Jumps and Message to Harlem, the fans ripped the place wide open. They listened to his newest and most pretentious masterpiece;, Prologue Suite in Four Movements, in a state of glassy somnam-bulance. When Kenton...
This week Kenton moved into Chicago's Civic Opera House for a one-night stand; the 4,200 seats and standing room had been sold out for two weeks, and 3,000 ticket-buyers had been turned away. (It was no trouble at all to get seats in advance for the Metropolitan Opera's famed Ezio Pinza that afternoon...
Last week Mikolajczyk, sporting a new mustache grown during his flight from Poland, was reunited with his family in the London suburb of Kenton. Of his own escape he would say little, except that he had worn an overcoat and shoes bought in Quebec during the war, horn-rimmed glasses and a squashy old hat-"to make me look American." His thoughts were more on his colleagues who, like him, had tried to squeeze through the Iron Curtain. Grim news reached his refuge; he alone had made good his escape. Czech police had nabbed seven of his followers. The Communist...
...Gunner Charles Gorman, who was shot down in Rumania during the war, was in a civilian plane crash last week. Returning from the Cleveland Air Races with a former Army flyer and two young women, the light plane cracked up in the woods near Kenton, Ohio. Charles Gorman's three companions were killed; for about 40 hours he lay in the wreckage. Later, in a Kenton hospital, still woozy from the narcotics which eased the pain of his shattered left arm, he tried to tell what it had been like...