Generation.

The Beat Generation was a group of authors whose literature explored and influenced American culture in the post-World War II era. The bulk of their work was published and popularized throughout the 1950s.

In ’60 I drove up to the City  to interview  their  Guru Ken Rexroth  local hi brow critic  and  hired  him on for a 2 night Jazz Poetry  reading sponsored by my Music Frat Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia  at Morris Daily Auditorium. We sold put both nights and just MAY have been most cerebral  concert series there ever. Chamber Jazz Sextet  with own local member Allyn Ferguson  as the  jazz  band keyboard leader and my San Jose Youth Symphony director  at  age 18 until I out grew Solo Horn  and moved to the adult group

Al went on to write Hollywood shows like  My Favorite Martian  staring a Lowell Hi grad Bill Bixby  we’d know since  brother Val was in ROTC with, and came to my Dudley Stone Elem to do  wall scene from Midsummer’s Night. Ever the big ham but made good.  Al’s best  theme was probably  Charlie’s Angels then Barney Miller  8

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/30/arts/30ferguson.html?_r=0

“Far from perfect, however, is the track of Gold these past four years. And with the football season now upon us, Gold reminds us of famed Minnesota Vikings’ defensive end Jim Marshall, who in 1964 recovered a fumble against San Francisco here at Kezar Stadium — and then ran 66 yards the wrong way to score a “safety” favouring the 49ers. Yet should the analogy hold going forward, ’tis a Gold Positive, for the Vikings nonetheless went on to win the game”

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