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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eventually, however, he made it. He played his horn in Paris nightclubs, joined the first jazz band ever to play in Ger. many (their audiences included brass hats in the Army of Occupation at Coblenz). Back in Paris, Hiler was manager, host, musician and barman at the famed Jockey, Left Bank hot spot owned by Jockey Milton Henry's wealthy widow. One night in her cups Proprietress Henry ejected a Negro who proved to be a Senegalese prince and member of the Chamber of Deputies. Next day the Jockey was padlocked. Hiler reopened it, invited every Negro in Paris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Hiler Hits Out | 4/5/1943 | See Source »

...invite from the exclusive Pine Manor Girls' School in Wellesley. The date's Saturday, April 10, private bus service deerect. Eighty Midshinmen bachelors to be invited. this has no connection whatsoever with the letter Artise Mayer is working on in answer to Wellesley's "We love brass buttons" article in last week's Service News. We'll say no more, but we hope it works...

Author: By M. J. Roth, | Title: Straight Dope | 4/2/1943 | See Source »

...built in 1884, the Murray Hill was the very last word in elegance, from the grey marble grand staircase to the dazzlingly newfangled electric lights that gleamed on the first two floors. There was a fireplace in every living room, a gilded chamber pot under every bed, a brass cuspidor in every room. The washstands were marble, with brass legs; many a wall was hung with imitation Fragonards and Watteaus. The largest and best suite was set aside for Grover Cleveland. When Cleveland went to the White House in March 1885, the food for the inaugural ball was rushed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: End of The Old Lady | 3/29/1943 | See Source »

Civilians Picture "Yank, The Army Weekly" as a legendary newspaper published by Army brass hats and soft-job seeking soldiers a cross between printed morale tonic, a military trade paper, and legalized pornography...

Author: By J. ROBERT Moskin, | Title: 'Yank' Glorifies Army's Average Enlistees; Published Here and Abroad by Noncoms | 3/12/1943 | See Source »

Civilians picture "Yank, The Army Weekly" as a legendary newspaper published by Army brass hats and soft-job seeking soldiers: a cross between printed morale tonic, a military trade paper, and legalized pornography...

Author: By J. ROBERT Moskin, | Title: 'Yank' Glorifies Army's Average Enlistees, Published Here and Abroad by Noncoms | 3/10/1943 | See Source »

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