People, Jul. 12, 1971

Two months ago Jazz King Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong was gravely ill in a Manhattan hospital, fighting an apparently losing battle for his life. Now the gravel-throated singer and trumpeter has told newsmen: "My playing and singing's O.K. and I feel pretty good." To prove it, he took up his trumpet, blasted into What a Wonderful World, and announced he planned to go back to work. Said Satchmo: "That's what life's all about, man."

Slowed down by a dilatory auto ahead of him on an English highway, former Racing Ace Stirling Moss stepped on the...

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