Word: blues
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time or another, many a commercial pilot has felt the sweat of anxiety starting on his brow as he saw, off in the distance, a young fighter pilot climbing into the wild blue yonder with 2,000 h.p. in front of him and a good breakfast under his belt. Sometimes those fighter pilots experienced an exuberant urge for self-expression which could only be satisfied by a thunderous dive on a herd of cows, a pretty girl's house, or on a slow and whalelike commercial airliner...
...bright blue morning last week, the crew of a National Airlines DC-4 had cause to file an indignant complaint: "three Grumman-type fighters" buzzed their plane as they were passing over Dover, Del. Another complaint soon followed : the captain of an Eastern Air Lines Constellation reported that a Navy fighter howled toward his ship "on a collision course" as it was passing near Willow Grove, Pa. and did not veer off until it was only 150 yards away...
Next day, when Churchill went for a swim in blue bathing trunks, Italian photographers were hiding in nearby bushes. Police flushed them all out except one; he got some pictures, then tumbled down a slope into police range and got chased too. Churchill waded ashore, shook himself vigorously, stomped into the hotel growling: "I am not a movie star...
...high-school sophomore from Somerset, Mass., Shirley May France has blonde hair, blue-grey eyes, stands 5 ft. 10 in. and carries her 158 lbs. extraordinarily well. Her father started coaching Shirley May when she was six, but has now handed the job over to Harry Boudakian, who coaches sports at Somerset Hugh. Boudakian put weight on Shirley May, makes her go to bed six nights a week...
...Shinjuku (Tokyo's Montmartre), half-educated trumpets got in their licks, and demi-lingual cries, Tokyo boogie-woogie, rhythm uki-uki, Kokoro zuki-zuki, waku-waku, jarred the night. Pickup bands were a yen a dozen, and most Japanese seemed to have the yen. They liked it blue, hot, and syrup-sweet, and called it all jazzu...