Word: bets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jazz without Labels. For short, smiling Joe Mooney, 35, it was a sweet triumph. He had played piano in a dozen forgotten bands, arranged music for Fats Waller, Jane Froman, Jack Teagarden, Paul Whiteman. In 1935, he bet someone that an accordion could be made to swing, learned to play the thing and became accordionist in Whiteman's band. Then in 1943 an auto accident put him in a cast for 18 months, left him with a permanent limp. Last March he rounded up Clarinetist Andy Fitzgerald, Guitarist Jack Hotop and Bass Player Gate Frega, sold them...
...network beginning this week, intends to announce each program himself. Says he: "For four or five years we've had nothing but screaming. It's almost unexplainable the way a crowd will quiet down and listen to Joe and his boys. I'll bet they'd listen for an hour without making a noise if they didn't have to let their breath out now and then. They're the greatest musical group I've heard in the last ten years...
...Brazil's new Chamber of Deputies was to vote an emergency $97,380 for grasshopper defense. Last week a Brazilian military plane headed south from the U.S. with a two-ton load of flamethrowers provided in a hurry by the U.S. Gammexane, modern man's best bet in such warfare, was unobtainable, and the Biological Institute of Sao Paulo had to concoct its own insecticide right behind the lines. Experts agreed that only a miracle could save the farmers of southern Brazil. But cariocas were confident that the locusts would not come to Rio, because there (said they...
...Samuel Williams who-mostly by not doing very well-was the most talked about man in the series. When he went to bat, the Cards shifted their infield men to the right. It was both a tribute to Williams' prowess as a right field hitter, and an insuring bet on his inability to hit anywhere else. Sure enough, he hit squarely into the concentrated St. Louis defense. Since Ted Williams is a moody, mulish sort of fellow, nobody knew for sure whether he couldn't or wouldn't hit to left. Fans asked two questions...
...Marine who swam ashore on a voluntary reconnaissance mission just before Tinian was invaded. And even if Perfectionist Leahy has not found him yet, Notre Dame surely has at least one express-train halfback up its sleeve somewhere. The real question is when he will be sprung. One good bet is squatty, slippery Emil Sitko...