Word: chattanooga
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, living up to his press notices, Chunkin' Charley completed 20 passes against little Chattanooga in the first half of the game. His season's total jumped to 120-a new national record. Most of Charley's passes went to ex-West Pointer Barney Poole, who is just two shy of the record for catches. Charley was certainly a good All-America...
...quizmaster. Why, said Miss Utah, on the Mississippi River. Miss Chicago was convinced that Maryland had been named for Queen Elizabeth, and that Napoleon had been crowned Emperor by the French people (correct, the judges decided, because Napoleon, who crowned himself, was one of the French people).* Miss Chattanooga was asked: "What is the capital of Massachusetts?" She shifted uneasily, hesitated, finally burbled something which sounded very much like "Petroleum...
...Miller fans remembered Tex Beneke best as the whiny-voiced singer of Chattanooga Choo Choo and My Melancholy Baby, or as a hard-riding tenor-sax soloist. Miller helped set up other friends, e.g., Charlie Spivak and Hal Mclntyre, with bands of their own, but Tex didn't want the responsibility. Now, when bands and nightclubs were dropping like overripe apples in a high wind, Tex keeps a payroll of more than 40 busy at a weekly overhead of $9,200. He is making no fortune at it, but a new radio contract with Miller's old sponsor...
Thomas A. Munns, Jr., of South Campus Avenue, Oxford, Ohio, a graduate of the Baylor School, Chattanooga, Tenn...
Combat Fatigue (Oct.). In Chattanooga, Mildred Underwood got her 16th divorce, explained: "I get tired of them...