Word: chicagoan
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...years, U.S. dance-band managers have waltzed attendance on a stubby voluble Chicagoan named William Karzas. An engagement at Karzas' famed "wonder ballrooms"-the Trianon on Chicago's South Side and the Aragon on the North Side-means big money (an average of $4,000 a week), and often the making of a new band...
...Drill. But last year things began to change. Los Angeles heard rumors of a struggle for power, a merging of talent. Some said Mickey Cohen might end up as the city's No. 1 business man. Benny began to be seen with one George Levinson, a Chicagoan with wide experience who had come West to enter the profitable nylon black market...
...outstanding figure in the show, however, is Corporal Ray Richardson, 23-year-old Chicagoan, who plays "Tom Wand"-a take-off of the opera's legit Don Jose. Richardson formerly sang with the Chicago Opera, which certainly doesn't hurt his renditions of I Love You, A Little on the Lonely Side and Sweet Dreams, Sweetheart...
...erect, white-haired Chicagoan has long campaigned for open competitive bidding for securities in the railroad and utility fields, in place of the traditional, privately negotiated deals. Last week the syndicate headed by Halsey, Stuart plunked down the winning bid for the largest issue of railroad securities ever offered by competitive bidding-Great Northern Railway's $100,000,000 in refunding bonds (TIME, Sept...
...Government arrived, in the person of an old-family Chicagoan, Under Secretary of Commerce Wayne Chatfield Taylor - a rich man's son, product of St. Mark's and Yale, onetime investment banker, and by no means a wild-eyed New Dealer. Sewell Avery rose from his chair, his thin lips parting in an amiable smile, and courteously, gravely asked the U.S. Government to step in. The door closed...