Word: aves
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bred Trumpeter Vaughn Monroe, fronting for a five-piece Boston society combo, was about as low on the bandleaders' register as a man could get. Now & then he would try to jolt his cocktail-and coming-out party patrons from their fox trot and rumba rut by booming Ave Maria or Glory Road in the aggressive baritone he was training for opera in his spare time. But mostly he gave them "what was called for-a hundred and twenty-eight beats to the minute-the debutante stuff and the businessman's bounce...
...Boston. You can't beat the Viking at 442 Stuart Street for variety. A heaping smorgasbord is within easy striking distance of most tables. Jake Wirth's on Stuart Street featrues the best local Gorman beer and food, while the Cafe de Paris at 165 Mass. Ave in Boston flaunts French cooking and wine to match...
...Savoy, Mass. Ave. at Columbus Ave., offers liquor and jazz. Localitte Bob Wilber leads a group of musicians who are almost all better than he. Jimmy Archey is tops on the trombone...
...building fund, a Wall Street banking group raised $11 million. The New York Central put up the land and with the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad another $10 million more. (As a big New York Central stockholder, which now gets a yearly rental for the land on Park Ave., Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, grande dame of Manhattan's social world, will, in effect, be one of Connie Hilton's new landlords...
...request he was buried in once-damned Swedish soil, under a simple oak cross bearing the inscription Ave Crux Spes Unica (Hail, Cross! The Only Hope...