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Word: brownness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Just a Synopsis." With his present (and fourth) wife, pretty onetime show girl Lucille ("Brown Sugar") Wilson, Satchmo makes his "regular home" in a twelve-room house in a mixed white-and-colored neighborhood in Corona, borough of Queens, New York City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Louis the First | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

...road, his schedule has long ago hardened into routine. After the show, which is usually over between 2 and 4 a.m., he goes out for a "snack," accompanied by Brown Sugar, his valet, "Doctor" Pugh, and whatever old friends and acquaintances want to join the party. The snack usually comes to a huge portion of ham & eggs, with potatoes, hot biscuits, hominy grits and coffee on the side. When complimented on his appetite, Satchmo replies: "Man, that's just a synopsis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Louis the First | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

SCOTT-KING'S MODERN EUROPE (89 pp.) -Evelyn Waugh-Little, Brown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Journey to Neutralia | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

Research on a method of training polio victims to use healthy muscles to do the job of paralyzed muscles will also receive March of Dimes support. Dr. Derek E. Denny-Brown., James Jackson Putnam Professor of Neurology, who is perfecting the scheme, points out that even the simplest actions are performed by a "team" of muscles. He feels that these teams can be taught to function even when polio cripples some of the member muscles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: $40,000 Goes To University Polio Studies | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

...body press at 2:59.5; 155-pound class--Gilmore (D) decisioned Skinner (H), 4-2; 165-pound class--Thompson (H) pinned Donahue (D) with a half nelson and leg hold at 8:15; 175-pound class--Monahan (D) decisioned Connors (H), 5-2; heavyweight class--Houston (H) pinned Brown (D) with a body press...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: Vrestlers Scalp Dartmouth with Five Pins; 25-9 | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

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