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rroll Garner aies meLt of his unique piano-style by refusing him the union -card: he: needed to play with bands

... Manhattan telephone book to bolster his presence on the piano stool, Garner developed a bravura rhno style that led many critics 0 speak of him as a jazz Debussy. - ; While he could not read music, he had an uncanny ability to remember everything he heard — including ...

Published: Tuesday 04 January 1977
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 365 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

AN EXCUSE

... any visitors. They will ‘want to wear tartan, and Edinburgh will look like no other ;cfty on the globe at that time.” ~'He speaks with pride of the event “which will . bring clan chiefs from all over the world: I am absolutely certain that ‘we 'will be ...

Published: Tuesday 04 January 1977
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 217 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

THE SuatEMAN Social service and the

... way things work. We talk of the “ party political machine ”; the economy can be, said to operate on a “stop-go” policy; we speak of “oiling the wheels of industry” when we are really thinking about labour -relations. Se¢ ‘it is - not surprising | that ...

Published: Wednesday 05 January 1977
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 699 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Pitlochry Festival programme

... but this play was first- seen’at the Citizens' Theatre,. Glasgow, in 1969.. . ‘Alan ;. Ayckbourn's. comedy .Relatively- - Speaking-' will also-_be ‘presented, and . there will ‘bea. series. of . Plays in ‘Progress!' ' — néw : works by five .'’ authors ...

Published: Wednesday 05 January 1977
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 150 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

tric organ herald solemn Pontifical Mass. TR

... not allowed to smoke, leave the buildings .without permission or go into each other's rooms. Most times they may not even speak. Silence is regarded as an ...

Published: Thursday 06 January 1977
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 353 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

Chinese unity Wester Craigend, Stirling,

... to selected people.” 1 am an ordinary OAP, who hap- Pens to have lived in China for our. years before the Revolution, who speaks f‘ood Mandarin Chinese and who selected himself for a visit of a month's duration in 1974 and hopes to return for a similar ...

Published: Thursday 06 January 1977
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 278 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Prentice to demand vote reform

... = - - Mr Prentice 'is booked to address the Tory’ Reform Group next month -and has made clear that he would be willing to speak to - any : *“democratic” party inviting him. g ) ...

Published: Thursday 06 January 1977
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 209 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Festival Grant Row: Wilson Asks For Tory Resignations

... far as the Festival is concerned and have not been acting in the interests of the Regional Council.” Convener Wilson was speaking at a Press conference at which he accused the two Conservatives of supporting one line of action in the Region and the opposite ...

Published: Thursday 06 January 1977
Newspaper: Dalkeith Advertiser
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 955 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

By John Fellows

... knowledge things can become much more complicated. Put two hifi fanatics together and for the ordinary person they could be speaking a foreign language with world like ohms, ' frequency response,’ noise filters, quad and much else besides. It is ...

Published: Thursday 06 January 1977
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 396 | Page: 21 | Tags: none

priory of the —d-l{ i kb -is just 22, in the alling he could pase's for someone ten’ &u& ::'der.‘

... seminarians ~ who include doctors of medicine, law and philosophy — regard this as the correct way of religious formation. They speak scornfully of some modern seminaries where there is freedom in study and lifestyle, and where some novices even date women ...

Published: Thursday 06 January 1977
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 661 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

Electoral reform is vital, says Prentice

... fundamental electoral reforms in his first major speech outside . Parliament _since his resignation from the Government. , .Speaking’ at -the = National ‘Liberal Club, he claimed that the two big political = parties were over-represented in -Parliament ...

Published: Friday 07 January 1977
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 302 | Page: 7 | Tags: none