Word: chattanooga
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week a minor recording outfit, West Coast Recordings, released four Lu Watters records, planned to turn out 32 more. They included classics like Canal Street Blues, Creole Belles and Chattanooga Stomp, and originals like Turk Murphy's Trombone Rag and Lu's Antigua Blues, named after the ship on which Lu did Navy duty. Watters' boys have an impressive library of 200 oldtime tunes-all "in their heads...
...Chattanooga's municipal airport one day last week, a group of excited Tennessee schoolmarms & masters (age range: from 20s to 70s) took to the air, 29 of them for the first time. After zooming around for 20 minutes they were shown why a plane flies, how an airport tower operates, how weather and communication services are conducted. The occasion was the first of a series of "institutes" to prepare teachers for a state-wide program of aviation instruction in all public schools, from first grade through college...
Connie Mack has missed very few bets in his 44 years with the Philadelphia Athletics. But he gave up too soon on Al Benton. Ten years ago he shunted the big, happy-go-lucky pitcher off to the minors. In exile, 6-ft.-4 Al worked for Williamsport, Albany, Chattanooga, Memphis, Toledo. Gradually, he cured a sore arm and came up again, this time with the Detroit Tigers. As their grade-A relief pitcher, he averaged over 150 innings a season, and saved many a game, from 1939 through...
...usually bad businessmen, and 2) that good businessmen who don't know the first thing about newspapering often itch to run a paper. Mixing this knowledge with a gift of the gab, he has since juggled millions of dollars worth of newspaper investments in Miami, New Orleans, Chattanooga, Detroit, Chicago, Atlanta, Indianapolis and points between and beyond...
Full Houses. In Stockholm, Sweden, a mother who had just given birth to her fifth child talked with two wardmates who had each had twins, discovered that all five children had the same father. In a Chattanooga tax office, a woman claimed five dependent children, "Two by my first husband, two by my second, and one by myself...