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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the two white jazz aficionados who brought Bunk to Manhattan (and have barely broken even on their investment) rented the hall for six weeks. Bunk signed a recording contract with Decca. Bunk Johnson, at 65, was apparently about to discover that there was money in his music-whatever the longhairs wanted to call...
Cassini was drafted in October 1943 just after he had signed a contract to-become Cholly Knickerbocker. Bootsie kept Igor's old Washington column going while her husband, a sergeant on Stars & Stripes, became a pal of socialite colonels and generals in England and France...
...last week, things looked up sharply. President Prescott landed his first big contract - a $200,000-a-year deal with California Flower Shippers to fly flowers from California to Chicago at $1,440 a planeload. Said Prescott: Skyways should now be able to expand in a more dignified fashion...
...highhanded, well-manicured leadership of bulky, redheaded Joseph Patrick Ryan. On Oct. 1, when 30,000 stevedores walked off the job in New York City, they revolted. Led by Eugene Sampson, business agent for Manhattan's largest local, 791, the rebels had balked at a Ryan-negotiated contract which gave them a 10?-an-hour pay increase and a week's paid vacation. Reason: it ignored their demands for smaller sling loads, larger working crews and a guarantee of at least four hours per job. Also, the strikers objected to Ryan on general principles...
...return he got a five-year contract as "adviser," at $100,000 a year. Cracked a producer: "It looked like it might be difficult, but all we had to do was give him half a million in severance...