Jun 8, 2016

Sat, Jun 8, 1946: double header

"Today we got our money's worth out at the ball park.  The double header with the Chicago White Sox lasted 5 1/2 hours.  After a hurried breakfast- Walt Brunkhumer and I arrived out at Griffith Stadium at 1 P.M.  Then some 5 or 6 cokes, several sandwiches, and countless arguments later at 7 P.M. we left for home after watching the Nats top the White Sox in both games by an identical 7-6 score....
"Thursday night I took in the Duke Ellington concert at the Watergate -- an improvised ampi-theatre down by the Potomac River.  In fact, the band itself played on a barge moored along the river bank... The Duke was in good concert form.  As a master of ceremonies he has poise, as a pianist tops in jazz, and as a jazz band leader his wearing of tails was quite extraordinary.  The concert consisted of his more ambitious works..."

--Letter from my father, Washington, D.C.,  to his family, Bloomington, Kans., Saturday, June 8, 1946.

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