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After that, Black became a lonely dissenter, with only Douglas for an ally. Murphy and Rutledge died in 1949, and their successors-Tom C. Clark and Sherman Minton-consistently disagreed with him. Black's wife died in 1951, plunging him into gloom for six years, until he married his secretary (and quickly taught her tennis). Amid all this, Black was alarmed at the Court's bend-over-backward opinions during the McCarthy-era prosecution of real or suspected Communists. One after another, his dissents contained such phrases as "I regret, deeply regret," and "this weird, debilitating interpretation...
...State of Grace. Since 1939, when Powell first soared to prominence as a 15-year-old boy wonder, his entire career has been a long, tense battle with drink, drugs and derangement. He sat in at the birth of bop at Minton's Playhouse in New York, toured with Cootie Williams' Orchestra. Then in 1945 he suffered the first of a series of breakdowns that have kept him in and out of mental hospitals ever since. He formed his own trio in 1949 and was soon the dominant pianist in jazz and the idol of a generation...
Walter J. Minton '45, president of Putnam's has spent the past three months attempting to gather expert witnesses in the Boston area. He indicated in March that a number of academic figures would assist in the case, possibly including some from Harvard...
Walter J. Minton '45, president of Putnam's, said this week that "a number of people have expressed a willingness to testify. This includes faculty members at M.I.T., Boston University, Wellesley, and Tufts, as well as at Harvard...
...Sound. All the best players of the time would drop by to sit in at Minton's. Saxophonist Charlie ("Bird") Parker, Trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie. Drummer Kenny Clarke and Guitarist Charlie Christian were all regulars and, in fitful collaboration with them, Monk presided at the birth of bop. His playing was a needling inspiration to the others. Rhythms scrambled forward at his touch; the oblique boldness of his harmonies forced the horn players into flights the likes of which had never been heard before. "The Monk runs deep," Bird would say, and with some reluctance Monk became "the High Priest...