Word: blackhawk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back in 1937, Band-Leader Kay Kyser was whiling away the slow Monday evenings at Chicago's Blackhawk Restaurant by dishing out a line of folksy chatter to the customers. Out of such primitive horseplay grew his College of Musical Knowledge, a corny radio perennial which was transplanted last week to television (Thurs...
...good old square dance and the numbers the boys in the band clowned up in trick hats and phony mustaches, were strictly corny. But last week, while many another U.S. nightclub with tonier entertainment was as empty as the inside of a kettledrum, Chicago's old standby, the Blackhawk Restaurant, couldn't find room for all the customers who wanted it straight...
...into music"). His You Call Everybody Darling is the nation's No. 1 song hit. (His recording of it with his "Happiest Band in the Land" is also the No. 4 bestselling popular record.) And last week, "so people will be sure to identify it with me," Blackhawk customers were getting liberal doses of his latest number, Brush Those Tears from Your Eyes...
Since then, Al has dropped his drumsticks for a baton and seldom musses his neat double-breasted suits even when he gets into the act on songs like The Mortgage Man. Most of the time, he circulates around the green-walled, silver-pillared Blackhawk to make the customers feel at home. They seem...
...Soldiers Too. Soldiers of the 86th ("Blackhawk") Infantry Division, waiting at Pittsburg, Calif., to be redeployed to the Pacific after 28 days of combat in Europe, sent telegrams to editors: "The Regular Army wishes to send additional divisions rather than individuals so that they can keep control over large organizations . . . for the retention of their temporary wartime high ranks. . . ." The battle-seasoned 95th Infantry Division, reassembling for Pacific deployment at Camp Shelby, Miss., sent petitions to newspapers and Congressmen: "Why should we serve on two fronts when there are many who never served...