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						BY TIMES-PICAYUNE
Jack Webb ("Pete Kelly") on landing at Moisant Airport. is presented with an "Honorary Membership" in the New Orleans Jazz Club by Vice President Frank Bonansinga. Webb is shown accepting a "Southland" album of Mardi Grass Music, by Johnny Wiggs (who recorded the record). This was in gratitude for Webb's featuring the same record over a national hookup.
		JACK WEBB
On Wednesday morning, August 3rd, 1955, Jack Webb landed at Moisant Airport in New Orleans. He was accompanied by his lovely blonde wife. He stepped from the plane keeping time to some two-beat music (with Papa Assunto - "Jac" to you - very much in evidence in a snazzy straw hat and striped coat), and was besieged, just as any other Hollywood star, by autograph hounds and celebrity idolators.				ance with the sentence, "Your membership will hear from me!"
				In an interview over radio and TV, Mr. Webb expressed appreciation towards the NOJC, and mentioned his feeling- toward our activities. He was especially cognizant of the fact that when he (Jack Webb) began broadcasting jazz records under the title of "Pete Kelly's Blues", one of the very first letters of thanks came from the New Orleans Jazz Club. He seemed quite impressed with this gesture of friendship, and has already done a great deal of "plugging" in our direction.
Before he left the inclosure, VicePresident of the NOJC Frank Bonansinga (in the absence of Prexy George Blanchin), presented him with a "Life Time Membership" card in our organization. Johnny Wiggs, one of the founders of the Club, also presented Jack with a copy of his famous Mardi Gras record ("If Ever I Cease To Love/Zulu Parade March," Southland). Mr. Webb seemed extremely pleased with the recognition which the Club has given him, and said so. He finished a short speech of accept
				Altho the jazz element of Webb's picture, "Pete Kelly's Blues" is limited to a short part of the preamble (we had hoped for much more!), the picture was a grand success here in
				the Crescent City. Webb, as Pete Kelly, does a wonderful job in the lead. The dialogue is snappy, fast moving and exciting.
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