Word: aced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hour was musician's midnight (9 a.m.). Hulking, disheveled Roger "Brick" Fleagle-an ace arranger for such name bands as Duke Ellington, Fletcher Henderson, Jimmie Lunceford-lumbered into the studio, stared at his unshaven assemblage and lazily "sparked" (alerted) them with his pinkie finger. They played a few tired bars to warm up. Then Brick, his barrel-stomach protruding under a striped sweat shirt, gave his final orders: "We'll take SOS [Same Old Sheaves]. On the last two bars, Charlie, make it bumpa, bumpa, some Charleston, then a brrrrooom. O.K., we're rolling...
Said Major Charles Biddle, World War I ace (seven planes), Philadelphia lawyer, cousin of Francis (lately Attorney General) and a swarm of other Philadelphia Biddles: "There would appear to be no good reason why Mr. Bitle should be permitted to . . . give the impression he was of English origin...
...Gabby") Gabreski, 26, affable, much-decorated ace (28 Nazi planes); and Kay Cochran, ?i ; in Prairie du Chien...
...Niemoller, the one German whom Christians everywhere had respected, shocked a lot of people last week by saying that he had volunteered to serve in Hitler's U-boat fleet. This admission, made to hostile British and U.S. correspondents in Naples, should have surprised nobody. Niemoller was an ace submarine officer in World War I, he was already a privileged but jealously guarded prisoner of the Nazis when World War II began, and his offer to serve again had been reported...
Halled by all observers as the most significant event since prohibition, this angle is expected to draw a crowd of celebrities surpassing that of the Lampoon rout. Bill Cunningham, ace Herald sports reporter, wired his regrets and said that he could not come but would send his pet Yale man as a representative...