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Felt but Not Heard. Jimmy's trio (Giuffre, sax and clarinet; Jim Hall, guitar; Ralph Pena, bass) strutted their stuff one star-studded night last week in the outdoor Wollman Theater in Manhattan's Central Park. Jimmy led the boys through a passel of his favorites: Pickin' 'Em Up and Layin' 'Em Down, 42nd Street, My Funny Valentine. The bass wove its low melodic line against the woodsy, paper-dry clarinet sound, the guitar attacked as solo rather than rhythm instrument. Sometimes Jimmy had five instruments (he played tenor and baritone sax and clarinet...
After pocketing a passel of prizes for its series exposing a Teamster-led conspiracy to take over Portland's rackets (TIME, April 8), the Portland Oregonian (circ. 232,338) sprouted a new Page One slogan: "Grand Slam of American Journalism." The Oregon Journal (181,210), which doggedly argued that there was more sham than slam to its competitor's exclusives, last week found much to savor when a jury acquitted Teamster Organizer Clyde Cardinal Crosby on charges of conspiracy to accept a bribe. Reason: Crosby had been charged with racketeering by Gambler Jim Elkins, who also led Oregonian...
...Geraldine, a New York University English major, was earning $4,160 annually v. Van Doren's $4,400 a year as an English instructor at Columbia. Together, they answered thousands of fan letters (mostly handout entreaties) that swamped Van Doren. Along the way, the couple chivalrously rejected a passel of outright marriage proposals. Another proposal-made by Van Doren himself-was accepted. In the Virgin Islands last week, Charles Van Doren, 31, answered one more question. His response ("I do") won him 1) Geraldine, 2) a tax saving of around $20,000, 3) a mother-in-law who cherishes...
...boss, one-man Groupthinker Sylvester L. ("Pat") Weaver, bubbled into activity again with a new pro-culture idea called Program Service, a high-class passel of TV shows that Weaver hopes to beam from stations in 15 "great bellwether markets." Aiming to operate above and beyond the ratings rat race. Pat Weaver, anxious to "enlighten and enrich," will soon start sending out signals to "all the mad scientists in the entertainment and information fields to start brewing their heady brews." Meanwhile, Quiz Whiz Charles Van Doren signed an exclusive five-year contract with NBC at a salary "close...
...CLOUD of dust is rising up above the cathode horizon, and soon the biggest passel of straight-shooting, clean-living Westerners ever to jingle on screen will ride into TV. In its insatiable search for material, television is transforming the traditional horse opera into the "adult western." The results, which pushed one western last week to No. 3 in the Trendex popularity poll, have encouraged the networks into preparing a whole herd of new westerns for next fall in the biggest visible trend for the coming TV season. See TV-RADIO, High in the Saddle...