Word: armstrongs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...honorary member of the Royal Netherlands Choral Society, in honor of U.S. soldiers who made Maastricht the first Dutch town to be liberated during the war. He received a first-edition block of the 3? George Washington Carver memorial stamps from Postmaster General Donaldson. Kiwanis International President Charles Armstrong informed him that Kiwanis was against Communism, for the United Nations...
...that any person who wants to play any instrument for profit must be a member of his union-or just play for his friends. This means everyone from Spike Jones, whose City Slickers would rather murder a tune than play it, to Concert Violinist Joseph Szigeti; from Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong, the king of swing trumpeters, to Susan Reed, who plays a polite zither in nightclubs. Arturo Toscanini is an honorary member but other symphony conductors, like the men in their orchestras, are obedient members of Petrillo's union...
...Chicago's bleak Northwest Side, Louis Armstrong had blown in town and out again, with his new sextet. Those who knew their way around the neon wilderness of the Negro South Side could still sometimes find Jimmy Yancey and Albert Ammons pounding out noisy boogie in a couple of dingy cafes...
...Harvard's opponents, Dartmouth placed Armstrong and Schreck, Yale placed Furse and Nadhorny, and B. U., Heller. On the second team Brown placed Iacuele, Regine, and Finn; Dartmouth, Sullivan and Jenkins; Yale, Prehlik; and Holy Cross, Kissell...
Faces familiar to Stadium-goers occupy three other positions on the second-string team picked by the press service's poll of coaches, scouts, officials and sports writers. These are Tom Finical of Princeton and Dale Armstrong of Dartmouth at the two ends, and Brown's Norm Iacuele at a guard position...