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Bunk Johnson (Columbia LP). The last professional engagement played by the late New Orleans trumpeter, who once showed some hot licks to a kid cor-nettist named Louis Armstrong. With six longtime jazzmen of Bunk's own choosing, he plays a free & easy program of twelve tunes, e.g., Chloe, Some of These Days, Out of Nowhere, in his simple but highly polished style. There are a few quaint runs and riffs straight out of turn-of-the-century New Orleans, but every number has the glow of on-the-spot invention...
...Panto Died. It was O'Dwyer, as a politically ambitious prosecutor in Brooklyn, who publicly promised justice in the case of Panto. It was O'Dwyer who finally let Anastasia, the killer, go free for lack of evidence after Star Witness Abe ("Kid Twist") Reles "jumped or fell" from a Coney Island hotel room in which six New York cops stood guard. But last week the commission exhumed a report, buried by O'Dwyer, on the exact circumstances of Panto's death...
AUGUST-Seniority. In Covington, Ky., James Riggs, 95, told police who arrived to help his 65-year-old son take him home from a tavern: "I'll go home with you guys, but no runny-nosed kid is going to tell me what...
...looked as though he had claimed everything in sight, and more. "The hidden source of all psychosomatic ills and human aberration has been discovered," he wrote then, "and skills have been developed for their invariable cure." But to Science Fictioneer Hubbard, these achievements soon seemed like kid stuff. He broke with the Hubbard Dianetic Foundation in Wichita, "to further pursue investigations into the incredible and fantastic," as the foundation puts it. Now, the founder of still another cult, he claims to have discovered the ultimate secrets of life and the universe, and to be able to cure everything, including cancer...
...slingshot passes-bullet "buttonhooks" or pinpointed "floaters"-found their mark on the field and in the National Football League record books. He picked up such nicknames as the "Redskin Rifle," the "Sweetwater Stringbean," and, naturally, "Slingin' Sam." And in the rough & tumble N.F.L., sinewy Sam Baugh, the kid who was once considered too fragile for college football, never once had a serious injury, never broke a bone...