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...surface noise, etc.). Titles of individual records: Benny Goodman Trio (Clarinetist Goodman, Pianist Teddy Wilson, Drummer Gene Krupa); Lionel Hampton; Earl Hines-Bitty Eckstine; Metronome All-Star Bands; Sidney Bechet; Jelly-Roll Morton; McKinney's Cotton Pickers; Great Trumpet Artists (Louis Armstrong, Bunny Berigan, Roy Eldridge, Bix Beiderbecke, Bunk Johnson, Dizzy Gillespie); Great Tenor Sax Artists (Coleman Hawkins, Chu Berry, Bud Freeman, Illinois Jacquet, Ben Webster, Charlie Ventura); Artie Shaw Favorites...
...going so fast in that last quarter; I had to cut my stride twice to prevent running over him." Wilt, who sets the pace, usually to see Gehrmann beat him (13-4) with a sprint in the final strides, lost no time replying: "That's a lot of bunk ... I go all out in these races and run to the best of my ability. I don't think Gehrmann does . . . Why doesn't he take over the pace and show the public his best? . . . He is a parasite...
...daily box of Winchell "WWrongos" and his carefully disguised corrections. Example: " 'Irving Berlin, the poor songwriter, netted only $650,000 (after taxes) in 1946.'" Two days later Winchell ran the veiled retraction: " 'Irving Berlin says the report that he made $650,000 (after taxes) is bunk...
...Brotherhood is the bunk," cried the little clergyman, "the most absolute nonsense. You Catholics out there--do you know the Jews are trying to take over this city? And the Protestants are helping them. Why, everyone knows that. Everybody knows that to be true. The Jews run the business end, and the Protestants, the religious. And this is supposed to be a Catholic city...
...Alexander Ranezay was roused from his bunk on the U.S. military transport General C. H. Muir. His wife packed; his daughters, Lydia, 21, and Erika, 10, dressed with special care. International Refugee Organization officials wanted the Ranezays to be all ready when the ship docked at 7 a.m. For 47-year-old Ranezay, once a Slovak farm manager, had been picked as the 1,000,000th refugee to be resettled by the I.R.O. since it began its work four years ago. He was I.R.O.'s 280,572nd displaced person accepted...