Word: accordions
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...Larry Adler can be highbrow on the harmonica or Andres Segovia on the guitar, what's wrong with an accordion? To prove there was nothing wrong, a slight, pretty accordion player with gold loops in her ears took the stage at Manhattan's staid Town Hall...
Gypsy's demonstration was a success. With two good fingers and a thumb, she played Liszt, Chopin, Ravel. To mollify Town Hall officials (who swallowed the accordion but balked at her accustomed gypsy spangles), she appeared in a demure marquisette dress...
...this class has been the liveliest for some time. Leo Karumpelas, dropping his accordion, has decided about the prospects with C.M. Bob Weekes and Dave Schieder, after the visit to the estate last weekend, have ideas about the profits to be made in jigsaw puzzles...
Toys were better in quality than last year. The paper shortage had eliminated many accordion-like cardboard creations, and WPB had allowed limited quantities of metal for things like doll carriages. Herds of odd stuffed animals turned up-satin sea lions, kangaroos with detachable offspring and velvet dachshunds in chartreuse, cerise and copper rose. A favorite item for children: secondhand tricycles, to be bought in side streets with the furtive triumph of Central American revolutionists buying old Gatling guns...
...most remarkable cyclist yet seen was a girl wearing a platinum fox short jacket, a huge washtub felt hat and accordion-pleated skirt, who somehow managed to make the bicycle look part of the ensemble. But shopgirls in printed frocks, bright sweaters, and the tricolor in their hair, as well as elegant women, make the G.I.s realize how much they have been missing in unimaginatively dressed Britain and the damp fields of Normandy...