[78-L] Lee Wiley jilts one guy to marry Jess Stacy

[Jeff Sultanof]

Thank you, Geoffrey. Pat is also known as a one-time publicist for Duke
Ellington. She has utterly fantastic Ellington stories (she told me one
about Duke asking to speak to her newborn daughter on the phone), and has
also been working on an Ellington book that I hope sees the light of day.

Jeff

On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 7:57 PM, Geoffrey Wheeler <dialjazz at verizon.net>wrote:

> I”m glad Jeff has explained the problem regarding the Louis Bellson
> bio. Pat Willard went into some detail with me on the phone about her
> difficulties preparing the bio. Pat herself is a fascinating person and
> a fund of information and knowledge about the jazz business. Besides
> our mutual interest in jazz, Pat also worked for the plastic model kit
> manufacturer, Revel Inc. in the ’50s. I knew the people at Revel well
> because of my own involvement with the model kit business. With that
> kind of shared familiarity with the business, the company, and its
> people, we had good laughs about some of the outrageous personalities.
> I knew their accountant and the fact that he incorporated every kit
> they manufactured as a separate corporation to defy the IRS. They
> challenged him, but it worked!
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