Word: barbershops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...found the music generally unsingable, the lyrics "stilted . . . pompous . . . episodic doggerel," the whole business "simply out of the question." Proposed Pegler as a substitute: "the Maine Stein Song (Rudy Vallee's onetime plug) . . . a thumping, rousing, really musical piece done within the range of the normal, or barbershop, voice...
Next delighted listeners heard wavy-haired Marine Sergeant Leonard Wheeler try to telephone his boyhood hero, ex-Sergeant Alvin C. York, in Jamestown, Tenn. (It had to be solo because Major York was chinning with the boys in a local barbershop and forgot to be at home for the call...
...more than that. A typical exchange has a bar serving low alcoholic beer (it may not be intoxicating), juke boxes, a shooting range, a soda fountain where a soldier can buy a lunch topped off by a triple-dip ice-cream soda. Usually there are also a barbershop, cobbler's shop, a tailor to make alterations in issue clothing for the carefully dressed soldier. Last week the Exchange Service added a new feature: officer's uniforms that a new second lieutenant can buy within the range of the $150 the Army gives him for his first outfit. Civilian...
...towns find expensive beer, and little else. In Fort St. John they mill around on the dusty or muddy main street with lumberjacks, trappers and "dirt stiffs" (construction workers), looking over the waitresses and dumpy Indian girls. Sometimes they get a haircut in Joe's tent barbershop, or go to the hospital, which has the only bath and running-water toilets in town. Average Saturday night consumption of 50?-a-bottle beer is 3,500 bottles. At the Inn in Whitehorse the jampacked soldiers sometimes push the 11 o'clock curfew up to 2 a.m., ending with...
...Cross George Washington Club-for enlisted men and guests only -is the biggest morale booster. This attractive remodeled hotel has been packed since its opening. Boys use the big lounge, crowd four beds to a room every weekend, fill barbershop, showers, game room, attend gala Saturday night dances with Red Cross-invited WAAFs, WRENs, ETATs, get messages, mail, write names on little flags to stick into their home base on a special map of the U.S. (so that local boys can get together), get free tickets, sign up for popular sightseeing tours, eat doughnuts and waffles, drink real coffee, cokes...