so we had 10 players on our mt greylock 'mounties' (why weren't we called 'the mounters' ?) rhs 1981 kosier league undefeated championship football team chosen as the best players in the league - the entire offensive team (though some were chosen for their defensive positions) except me, the qb
the lenox 'millionaires' qb lee eisenberg was chosen as the best kosier league qb
'The origins of his football dexterity, Zorn said, came at Cerritos College, where he played under legendary coach Ernie Johnson.'
"And he told me, he said, 'Listen, if you're gonna play quarterback and you're gonna continue on, you have to learn how to juggle,' " Zorn recounted today. "That's what he said. I said, 'What do you mean juggle?' He said, 'Juggle balls. You have to juggle balls.'"
- washington post
used to be able to spin the ball on a finger like jim zorn
- washington post
teammates asked me if i could
nfl sports intro in 1980 used to show zorn in a seahawks uniform spinning the ball on his finger while looking directly at the camera during a game - it was the coolest thing
and i felt like i let them down by not being able to, so i practiced it - and that practice turned out to be good practice for ball handling as your intuition learns to grab at the ball when it starts to flip all over the place
might have met john hammond once
'Legends were born in Hammond’s DownBeat writings, none more enduring than the story he wrote in the fall of 1937 concerning the death of Bessie Smith in an auto crash. Hammond had heard through sources in the Chick Webb band that Smith had been refused admission to a nearby Memphis hospital and had died en route to another. He related the tale in a DownBeat article headlined “Did Bessie Smith Bleed to Death While Waiting for Medical Aid?” '
https://downbeat.com/site/about/P3
' In 1950, he joined the staff of the “San Francisco Chronicle” and soon became the first full-time jazz critic on a major newspaper. Within a few years, Gleason was also a regular contributor to “Down Beat”. He developed long-standing friendships with Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, Dave Brubeck, Carmen McRae, and the Modern Jazz Quartet, and championed their work through his liner notes, newspaper reviews and magazine articles. In 1958, Gleason combined forces with disc jockey Jimmy Lyons and the MJQ’s musical director John Lewis to launch the Monterey Jazz Festival, an event which has survived all three of its founders, and remains one of the most successful jazz festivals (both artistically and commercially) in the world.'
https://jazzhistoryonline.com/ralph-j-gleason/
'Despite a popular myth to the contrary, once repeated on an episode ("Dear Dad... Three") of the hit TV series M*A*S*H and in the novels Carrion Comfort and The 480, Drew's death was not the result of his having been refused hospital access because of his skin color. In truth, according to John Ford, one of the passengers in Drew's car, Drew's injuries were so severe that virtually nothing could have been done to save him. Ford added that a blood transfusion might have actually killed Drew sooner.[24][25][26] This myth spread, however, because it was not then uncommon for blacks to be refused treatment because there were not enough "Negro beds" available or the nearest hospital only serviced whites.[27]'
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_R._Drew
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the tanglewood music festival began at margaret emerson's estate 'holmwood' which bordered 'highlawn' which was part of 'elm court' in lenox and stockbridge
'The widow would have been familiar with Lenox as a visitor to her husband’s cousin (Emily Vanderbilt Sloane – Elm Court) as well as other society cottagers. Mrs. Sloane’s daughter (Lila Vanderbilt Sloane Field [john hammond's aunt]) was a good friend would become a neighbor having built High Lawn in 1909. '
- Margaret Emerson McKim Vanderbilt Baker Amory (1884-1960)
https://lenoxhistory.org/lenoxhistorypeopleandplaces/margaret-emerson-holmwood-and-ventfort-hall/
'Newport Jazz Festival'
'In 1953, Guthrie and Lorillard visited the Storyville nightclub in Boston with her brother, Thomas T. Guthrie, and his friend, Professor Borne from Boston University. They met George Wein, who founded and managed the nightclub, and they discussed the possibility of bringing an outdoor jazz concert to Newport, Rhode Island, where they lived.[2]
With the guidance of John Hammond and George Avakian, two record producers and executives at Columbia Records, they came up with a list of performers. With a $20,000 grant from the Lorillards, the first Newport Jazz Festival took place in July 1954, attracting 11,000 fans. The Lorillards supported the festival until 1961.[3][4] The Lorillards said that the festival was founded as a nonprofit organization.[5]'
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elaine_Lorillard
'Held in Monterey, California, on June 16–18, 1967, the Monterey Pop Festival was the first commercial American rock festival. Dunhill Records executive Lou Adler and John Phillips of the Mamas and the Papas organized the festival around the concept of the successful Monterey Jazz Festival and staged it at that festival’s site. Featuring the first major American appearances of Jimi Hendrix and the Who, it also introduced Janis Joplin to a large audience and featured performances by the Jefferson Airplane, the Grateful Dead, the Byrds, Canned Heat, Buffalo Springfield, Otis Redding, Ravi Shankar, and many others.'
https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Monterey-Pop-Festival-1688427#ref710080
week 4
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