Word: armstrongs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Energetic Fritzie Zivic, onetime world's welterweight champion who had once licked pneumonia, Henry Armstrong and everything else in sight, began to retire-by slow degrees. He had three kids and enough money, he kept telling himself; he was always dabbling shrewdly in dry cleaning stores and peanut stands. He retired in Pittsburgh, retired again in California after his nose was pushed crooked again. His departure got so gradual it made the farewells of Patti, Sarah Bernhardt and Schumann-Heink look like hasty decisions...
...ARMSTRONG...
Swarthy Django Reinhardt, now 36, is an almost illiterate gypsy who was born in a roulotte (trailer) and only recently has succumbed to houses. As a boy he played gypsy music on the guitar and violin. When he was 19, he heard a record of Louis Armstrong's Dallas Blues. Said he: "The rest of the orchestra-c'est mauvais, but Louis-il est formidable!" After listening to records by Armstrong, the Duke and Tommy Dorsey, he got together in 1935 with a hot fiddler named Stephane Grapelly, organized the Quintet of the Hot Club of France (three...
...selling price). Milling one-sixth of all U.S. flour (twice as much as its nearest competitor) and processing one-fifth of all U.S. dry breakfast cereals, General Mills did a gross business of nearly $300 million last year. Yet, despite the best efforts of the Lone Ranger and Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy, its net profit was only $7 million...
Tough Break. In Sarnia, Ontario, Ronald Armstrong went to bed sound in limb, awoke a few hours later, felt a mysterious pain in his leg, found he had broken...