"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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