European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 8, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse                                \ t i born of make music by Howard Coley staff writer digging jazz just comes natural forsp4 Roger Dickerson. He says he was born at the right time in the right place 1934, in new Orleans. Lack of a musical family was no Handi Cap for the youngster. Just growing up in the Home of Dixieland and traditional jazz an atmosphere which he took advantage of during his sixth year in school when his instructor had difficulty restraining him from jazzing the keyboard instead of learning technical scores. Dickerson now a musician of Many instruments with the 33d army band in Heidelberg recalls How during his Early youth the Street funerals led by a strutting jazz band made them seem like almost  occasions. By the time he entered High school the student directed a vocal group and jazz band of his own. When he enrolled at dil Liard University he considered himself a finished jazz musician of the old school. Touring the Southern circuit with the bands of big Joe Turner and guitar. Slim became an annual affair during Summers and on weekends he often played in such noted new Orleans night spots As the Veaux Carre on Bourbon St. But Dickerson soon discovered music was More than just jazz and Dixieland. Mod Ern jazz was emerging and there was a classical Side also. The Young artist graduated with honors from Dilliard and studied at Indiana University where he wrote several classical compositions. One of these woodwind pieces and son has been performed by symphony orchestras at Minneapolis new Orleans and Nashville. After entering the army Dickerson per formed with the fort Smith Ark sym phony orchestra and while at it. Chaffee he composed for. The 14th army ban there. But jazz never took a Back seat. Since arriving at Heidelberg last year the Man of Many instruments has continuously performed with groups at local night spots Cooling his off duty hours with notes of modern jazz. The composer musician Hopes to go to Vienna in september where he will study ,. On a Fulbright scholarship at the state Academy of music and dramatic arts. Dickerson works at the piano scoring one of his classical compositions. Army i q54 4k k 8 2 West East --4643 9 7 5 2 ,4 a & 10 9 4 j 8 7 3 4 a 7 4 3 4k 10 9 6 5 South 4 j 10 8 v q j 10 9 6 5 t 62 v the bidding South West North East pass pass int pass ./4 pass " pass pass opening Lead King of Jinp Layment of sound percent " is of principles in guessing the location of an Adverse Honor hould frequently defer to in a formation acquired at the table. Declarer could have drawn a shrewd inference from his opponent s silence during the auction to land his game contract today. The bidding was reasonable an West opened the King of Dia monds against four hearts. Brief  on of the Dummy made it apparent to West that the club suit offered the Only Hope of developing any addition Al tricks for. The defense. So he followed by a pro Pipit shift to the three of clubs hoping to put Declarer to the guess if he did not hold the Queen. Declarer won with the Queen and took the heart finesse. North was critical of this play contending that the finesse should not have been taken with. 10. Trumps. South referred to the percentage tables to show that the finesse was the proper procedure. After  he plea ded i did t have a  North was right but not for the Rea son he assigned. He too had missed the Point. It is True that percentages favor the finesse with 10 when the King is missing. But Declarer had a better Clew than the percent age tables. At the end of trick two West is marked almost to a certainty with the Ace King of diamonds and the Ace of clubs. If he also held the guarded King of hearts it is quite inconceivable that he would have chosen to pass initially East is there fore marked with the King of hearts and the Only Hope is that it is alone. To pick off the single King would have been  illustration of playing by ear  t&50/tu two go tribunal the stars and stripes readers Are invited to submit their verse to the Pup ten. Poet editor co the Stan and stripes Apo 175, . Army the editor re serves the right to make minor changes and suggests that the author retain copies of their submitted poems As manuscripts cannot be returned. All contributions should be typed and double spaced to facilitate editing. The end of Winter Black Rusty figures once women now upright rag bundles three legged two withered flesh no less stiff than the third shiny Wood but less straight hobble and Teeter on Spring blackened Snow like themselves mocking at former fair Grace. Hear How they cackle in knowl Edge secure Spring comes but once then its ghost we endure. Liza of Landsberg summer Daze when flaming june upon us Hies it heralds warm and azure skies it also heralds closing schools with cherubs changed to devils tools and mothers stirred from Hiber nation to make the most of their Vaca Tion would seem my effervescent Brood despite the drowsy summer mood Are driven by a deep compulsion and energetic Jet propulsion to derive the most from Daylight hours and test my super human pow ers in spite of sly evading measure i m coerced under steady pressure to hike and Cycle picnic swim and make like Huckleberry finn a sucker for that Well worn text of Mother what can we do next who said that summer s mad for Leisure it s one Long round of children pleasure Winifred supera the Netherlands you can t win resolved to change my Way of life i took some Flowers to my wife. And i route Home i stopped Toby a Box of expensive Candy. At the door she started to cry exclaiming this is just Dandy All Day Long the kids have Bee bad and got their clothes All mud and gunk. And now to my troubles i la add that my husband has come Home drunk John Noonan Izmir Turkey woman she s an Angel in truth a Demon in fiction. A woman s the greatest of All contradiction. She s afraid of a cockroach Shell scream at a mouse but Shell tackle a husband As big As n House. Shell take him for better Shell take him for worse Shell split his head open and then be his nurse and when he is Well and can can get out of bed Shell pick up a Teapot and aim at his head she s faithful deceitful keen sighted and Blind. She s Crafty she s simple so e s cruel she s kind. Shell lift a Man up. Shell cast a Man Down Shell make him her hero her ruler her Clown. You fancy she s this but you find that she s that for Shell play like � Kitten and fight like a cat. Concerning a woman you can make no prediction for she is the greatest of All contradiction. Anon vespers this is the preparation for hot nights spent on Stoops in front of Canyon Browns Loewith cold Beer. This is the season of darkness pierced with shouts of morbid Celebration the raucous Din of Juke boxes swimming pools of Smoky Light through the doors of open barroom where sick emotions heighten to frighten and create nightmares of sordid reality monitored by Lombroso measured by Berti Jion with insane confession. It is Spring i hear preceding Days of animal atavism and a policeman Sheds a tear. Myron Goldstein Raf station Alconbury a bundle of nerves look at him chewing on that old Bent paper clip and see How his hands for no reason keep moving. Watch he touches his Chin his ear his lip. Guessed it the poor Guy has quit smoking. A sgt j. D. Joyce Safe purple hair lament i often see some purple hair but i never Hope to see it seems like when a woman reaches fifty she never wants to be it. The rinses for that Tell tale Gray do hide it i am sure but if my hair looked purple i d get a new Fri eur Mph Apo 757 a smile perched on the Pinnacle of a stari sat to Muse awhile and did my Best to Analyse the Beauty of a smile. Away through space flitted my soul to the Gates of that Beautiful City. To ask the celestial beings there but they gazed at me in pity. Begone said they do not return a smile is glory s leaven. Until you find a perfect smile is the key to the Gates of heaven. George o. Hopkins he us Jfe wednesday july 8, 1959