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Satch Gives Show Biz His Best Fitty
Las Vegas stars gathered at the Riviera Hotel to honor Louis Armstrong on fifty years in show business. The party in the Portrait Room drew Abbe Lane Robert Goulet Lisa Kirk Mort Sahl Line Renaud Frank Sinatra Jr. and others as Armstrong recalled his New Orleans roots and career from Dixieland beginnings to New York. Life Magazine plans a December cover on the aging icon and Riviera management hopes for a return engagement. Armstrong thanked friends and spoke of gratitude for fifty years in music.
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Louis Armstrong
Riviera
Las Vegas Strip
Riviera Hotel
Abbe Lane
Robert Goulet
Lisa Kirk
Mort Sahl
Line Renaud
Frank Sinatra Jr
Jan Garber
Freddie Bell
Roberta Linn
Jack Jones
Norm Crosby
the Nicholas Brothers
Jack Leonard
Armstrong
New Orleans
French Quarter
Chicapo
King Olivers Dixieland
Laten
New York
Joe Glaser
Life Magazine
Life
Sahara
Shelley Berman
Congo
Hotel Sahara
Berman
Four Saints
Louis Basil
Connie Francis
Pat Henry