Word: barbershop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Edward B. Marks, 80, publisher (Edward B. Marks Music Corp.) of some 20,000 songs including barbershop favorites and the urbane ballads of Jerome Kern, Sigmund Romberg, Rodgers & Hart: of pneumonia; in Mineola, L.I. While song-plugging in Manhattan saloons during the gaslit '90s, he saw a customer paw a tearful waitress, whipped out a pencil, wrote straight from life My Mother Was a Lady...
...hotel drew a wide and wealthy following. General Phil Sheridan lived there, delighted by the splendor of its huge Corinthian rotunda, Italian marble staircase, ornate sparkling chandeliers and a barbershop floor inlaid with silver dollars. Potter Palmer was almost as proud of his House as he was of his wife-of whom he once said fondly: "There she stands, with $200,000 [in jewels] on her." Only once did his hotel fail him. The Infanta Eulalia of Spain cut short a visit with Mrs. Palmer, then the queen of Chicago society, because she was "the wife of an innkeeper...
...Oswiecim concentration camp; or Mme. Félix Eboué from overseas France, widow of the late great Negro Governor General of French Equatorial Africa? Last week he prevailed upon Jules to withdraw his resignation and to discuss a revolution-by-law in the Assembly's old-fashioned barbershop...
...Jules still sputtered: "I have no room for lady constituents. If the Chief of Protocol wants to add a hairdressing salon to my barbershop, I will not oppose it. But it is foolishness...
Nothing Smelly. At Frank Spina's barbershop Harry Truman got his usual trim, reminded his old barber: "None of that fancy stuff. I don't want anything that smells." He got plain water. Over at the Federal Building he saw more old friends and held a brief press conference. Of the Supreme Court vacancy he told reporters: "The hardest thing in the world is to find a good man when you want one." After lunch he went home to Independence and slept all afternoon...