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An interesting quote from Frankie's NYT obit: 'Mr. Laine’s voice was electric, direct and clear. He took a lusty, rough-edged approach to his music, even with the sweetest ballads, saying he was inspired to do so by listening to Louis Armstrong play the trumpet. “I use my voice like a horn,” he told The Saturday Evening Post in 1954.'

Sixty years ago Ralph de Toledano authored a book called "Frontiers of Jazz". Anyone know the book? The New York Times Printer Friendly Format Sponsored By February 6, 2007 Ralph de Toledano, 90, Writer Known as a Nixon Friend, Dies By DOUGLAS MARTIN Ralph de Toledano, a news magazine editor, syndicated columnist and author of 25 books who was best known for his friendship with Richard M. Nixon and his passionate embrace of the conservative cause, died Saturday in Washington. He was 90. His death was announced by his nephew David Braunschvig. Mr. de Toledano was one of a brilliant group of students at Columbia in the 1930s and went on to write books of poetry and music criticism. He was a top editor at Newsweek magazine and later wrote a column that was distributed by King Features Syndicate. His political turning point came when Newsweek assigned him to the trial of Alger Hiss, an American diplomat who was accused of perjury related to charges that Hiss was a Soviet spy. Mr. de Toledano took the side of Whittaker Chambers, a Time magazine editor who was Hiss’s main accuser. He later wrote a book about the case with Victor Lasky, “Seeds of Treason” (Secker and Warburg, 1950), that was intensely partisan. Mr. de Toledano became a Republican and met Nixon, then a congressman, during the case. Later, in 1950, when Mr. de Toledano was covering Nixon’s campaign for the Senate, Nixon routinely introduced him as an author of “Seeds of Treason” and had him speak to the crowds. Mr. de Toledano was a regular contributor to National Review in the mid-1950s. When most of the magazine’s staff supported Senator Barry Goldwater for the Republican presidential nomination in 1960, Mr. de Toledano backed Nixon. But by 1963, he shifted gears and wrote a book favoring Goldwater. Mr. de Toledano was born on Aug. 14, 1916, in Tangier, Morocco. His father was a journalist and a businessman, and his mother a former news correspondent. Both were American, and they brought him to New York when he was 5. He went to Columbia, where The Columbia Jester was voted the best college humor magazine under his editorship. He studied with Lionel Trilling, Jacques Barzun and Thomas Merton. He was a socialist with Communist friends, whose views he barely tolerated. In 1938, he became associate editor of The New Leader, an anti-Communist weekly, and the next year, when Hitler and Stalin teamed up, he moved further right. He was drafted into the Army as a private and was an antiaircraft gunner, then was transferred to the Office of Strategic Services. Despite a crash course in Italian, he was rejected for covert work in Italy because he was deemed too anti-Communist to work with Italian leftists. After being discharged as a sergeant, Mr. de Toledano took several journalistic jobs, then was publicity director of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union. In 1948, he joined Newsweek, where one of his scoops was an interview with a Soviet spy who had defected. In 1960, he began his column for King Features. He also presided over radio and television shows. Mr. de Toledano gave advice to the Nixon White House but never won the position there that friends said he wanted. He considered running for the United States Senate from New York in 1970, but the idea fizzled. Mr. de Toledano is survived by his sons, James, of California, and Paul, of Brooklyn. In 1979, Mr. de Toledano wrote a book with W. Mark Felt Sr. about Mr. Felt’s career in the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Mr. de Toledano received half the proceeds, although his name appeared only on the copyright page. In 2003, Mr. Felt’s son, W. Mark Felt Jr., paid Mr. de Toledano $10,000 for rights to any augmentation of the book. Mr. de Toledano sued after it was disclosed in 2005 that the senior Mr. Felt was “Deep Throat,” The Washington Post’s source for Watergate. Mr. de Toledano said that this information was of commercial value and had been withheld.

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Fly me to the moon And let me play among the stars Let me see what spring is like On Jupiter and Mars In other words hold my hand In other words darling kiss me Fill my life with song And let me sing forevermore You are all I hope for All I worship and adore In other words please be true In other words I love you

Thats a nice session--Harold Baker is outstanding, displaying what Balliett once called his "new meadow" tone. I met Bud once when I was in high school, and I think he got a kick out of being questioned about Chicago jazz in the 1920s--he was a very good guy. But I've always felt that Bud's solo work missed the mark somehow, that for all his evident willingness to try new things--especially late in his career--his recorded legacy is not very interesting.

I've never been in full agreement with anyone's statements about anything, but Balliett's enthusiasms often became my enthusiasms as well. I'll miss him, too.

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Here is a more detailed account: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/30/science/...artner=homepage

The New York Times Printer Friendly Format Sponsored By January 30, 2007 Remains of Village Found Near Stonehenge By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 11:31 a.m. ET WASHINGTON (AP) -- Archaeologists have uncovered what may have been a village for workers or festival-goers near the mysterious stone circle Stonehenge in England. The village was located at Durrington Walls, about two miles from Stonehenge, and is also the location of a wooden version of the stone circle. Eight houses have been excavated and the researchers believe there were at least 25 of them, archaeologist Mike Parker Pearson said Tuesday at a briefing held by the National Geographic Society. The village was carbon dated to about 2600 B.C., about the same time Stonehenge was built. The Great Pyramid in Egypt was built at about the same time, said Parker Pearson of Sheffield University. The small wooden houses had a central hearth, he said, and are almost identical to stone houses built at about the same time in the Orkney Islands. The researchers speculated that Durrington Walls was a place for the living and Stonehenge -- where several cremated remains have been found -- was a cemetery and memorial. Both are connected to the Avon River by paths they called avenues. Parker Pearson said remains of stone tools, animal bones, arrowheads and other artifacts were uncovered in the village. Remains of pigs indicated they were about nine months old when killed, which would mark a midwinter festival, he said. Parker Pearson said Stonehenge was oriented to face the midsummer sunrise and midwinter sunset, while the wooden circle at Durrington Walls faced the midwinter sunrise and midsummer sunset.

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I started by posting at the Harlem.org board--the guy who moderated that was a cold, distant control freak. It was a slow, under-populated board. Being there was sort of like being in a large completely empty auditorium. On a good day there might half a dozen new posts. The two most active members squabbled all the time over nothing, and after awhile I concluded that one of them was a ventriloquist. Finally someone mentioned the BNBB in a post--said something nasty about it. That sounded a hell of a lot more lively and interesting than Harlem.org--so I checked it out. Got there just in time to witness the implosion. I occasionally visit the other boards--AAJ and JC--but I like it better here.

http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...st&p=591352 I'm fond of this post by the oversexed Mr. Twizzle. Randy Twizzle post Dec 13 2006, 09:07 PM Post #18 Veteran Groover **** Group: Members Posts: 360 Joined: 24-October 04 Member No.: 1000 Quite frankly I don't understand the derision directed at those who believe that we choose our sexual orientation. I remember quite clearly in the late 60s when I was in the 6th grade at Gatner Ave School in East Paterson, NJ , we had an assembly where health professionals addressed us on the choices we could make. We then had to sign up for the one that appealed to us and then have our parents sign a permission slip. I remember my father being quite relieved at my choice, but I sensed my mother's disappointment that I would never share her love for Judy Garland.

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