Word: backes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After a weekend at Las Vegas, Nev., Songwriters Johnny Lange, Walter Henry ("Hy") Heath and Fred Glickman were driving back to Hollywood, and getting what enjoyment they could from the desert scenery. On their way through Death Valley they spotted an occasional prospector trudging along beside his burro. "Nobody said anything at first," recalls dark-eyed Johnny Lange, "but then it occurred to us, like spontaneous combustion, you might say, that here was an idea for a song." They forgot the scenery, worked out words & music before they hit Hollywood. Glickman, who owns a small recording company, made a master...
...admission, Adriana was "a real beauty" with "firm straight legs, curving hips, a long back, narrow waist and broad shoulders. Mother said . . . there was not a figure like mine in all Rome." Adriana liked men, all kinds and any age, with an earthy nymphomania that inevitably took her into prostitution...
Something Impalpable. "Just as in autumn," cries Sir Osbert Sitwell, casting his radiant glance back over the Firbank life work, "the silver cobwebs lightly cover the trees with a thin mist of impalpable beauty, so a similar . . . intangible loveliness hung over every page, while wit ran in, round, and underneath each word...
Family Affair. In Leicester, England, interrupted by a passerby as he stabbed a woman in the back, Bertram Bishop quickly explained: "It's all right, it's only my wife...
Police questioned them until 3:30 p.m. and told them "to get back to New Haven tonight." Telephone calls between the Yale deane and Arthur R. Hordon, Jr. '39, assistant dean of the College, settled their fate. The three were given notice of their suspension over the weekend...