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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chicago's Loop was clogged with honking automobiles and pushing shoppers; the Indianapolis street railway had to put every last car in service to handle the great crowds, and Seattle had one of the biggest downtown traffic jams in history...
Although one of his biggest-selling records was made with a band (Wee Baby Blues with Blues Singer Joe Turner), Tatum's fame has come from his solo work. "A band hampers me. I hafta watch out for them." His solo records of standard tunes (Tea for Two, Sweet Lorraine), his jazz renditions of popular classics (Massenet's Elegy, Dvorak's Humoesque), and his showcase novelties (Get Happy, 9:20 Special) are part of most jazz collections...
Every year the colon-conscious U.S. public spends $100 million on laxatives-the biggest seller, after vitamins, in the drug field. Most of the laxatives people buy and take are intestine-irritating chemicals which many doctors denounce: cascara, aloes, resins, castor oil, phenolphthalein and salts. Such concoctions often aggravate digestive trouble, or start trouble if none exists...
...certain Veeck had not played it that way deliberately. Boudreau stayed by public acclamation next season, and every time he crossed the plate he scowled up at Veeck's box. Cleveland thought it knew exactly what Boudreau was muttering-"That'll show him." Boudreau in his biggest year in baseball showed the boss so well that the Indians won their first American League pennant in 28 years. When they also beat the Boston Braves in the World Series it was the signal for Bill Veeck to throw a party...
...Chicagoans are surrounded by lots of evidence of the work of Colonel Crown (World War II Army engineers). His Material Service Corp., biggest building-supply firm in the Midwest, did $33 million in sales last year and helped put up many a Chicago building. He also buys them ready-built and is one of the chief backers of Hotelman Conrad Hilton. Crown put up some of the money for Hilton to buy Chicago's Palmer House. When Connie Hilton bought Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria (TIME, Oct. 17), Crown chipped in $250,000. Today he owns...