High Times Hard Times by Anita O'Day & GEORGE EELLS

Author:Anita O'Day & GEORGE EELLS
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2021-02-16T00:00:00+00:00

That’s what Carl told the reporters and that’s what newspapers printed. Here is a copy of a report that Carl and I received from two physicians:

JOSEPH J. LEVEN, M.A., M.D.

General Surgery

928 Market Street

Canton, Ohio

4/15/51

Anita Hoff

Dr. Leven

Ectopic Pregnancy

GROSS: Specimen consists of a tube and attached ovary. The tube measures 8.0 X 0.6 cm. At the proximal end of the wall is dilated, hemorrhagic and appears to be ruptured. Remainder of tube is grossly normal. Ovary measures 4.0 X 2.0 X 1.0 cm. Surface is gray and wrinkled. Cut section reveals one large corpus luteum with central hemorrhage.

MICROSCOPIC: Mucosa and wall of Fallopian tube contain a large amount of recently extravasated red blood cells showing no evidence of organization. Numerous chorionic villi and decidual cells are found in the lumen, and chorionic villi are found invading the wall. Sections of the ovary revealone active corpus luteum.

DIAGNOSIS: TUBAL ECTOPIC PRECNANCY WITH RUPTURE

Dr. Henderson

Chances for such a pregnancy are about a million to one, according to Dr. Henderson, which made me something of a rarity.

Carl was wonderful to me. He took over as soon as I was well enough to travel back to Waukesha where I moved into his apartment. We kept trying to convince ourselves, against all logic, that we could make the marriage work. Long after we should have given up, we kept trying, but our relationship was an on-again, off-again thing. Before Denny, I could blame Carl and his chicks. Now it wasn’t so simple. The result was that none of us knew where we stood.

My relationship with Carl improved so much during the last half of 1951 that in 1952 we decided he’d be my exclusive manager again. This meant finding a new back-up group. Shortly after, Carl came home all steamed up one day. “How would you like to work with Roy Kral?” he asked.

“And have Jackie Cain snatch me bald? Who wouldn’t like working with Roy? But he and Jackie are a team.”

It turned out Jackie was pregnant and Roy was available. Carl reactivated our association with Freddie Williams of Associated Booking, Joe Glaser’s Chicago office, and they began setting up gigs. We opened in Milwaukee and after that engagement moved to the Blue Note in Chicago on May 16, an engagement that was heralded by a very nice promotional piece the Glaser people got Stanley Kenton to write about me:

Anita O’Day is the most uninhibited singer I’ve ever known. She sings without fear and that’s what makes her so dynamic.

Working with Anita I learned that when she hears a sound rolling around in her head, she’s never obsessed with worrying, “Will it go?” If she likes that sound she gets out and makes it . . . ,” he began and he ended, “There walks a gal who owns a patent on showmanship.

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