Word: diet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Along with Eddie Miller, Wingy Mannone, Irving Fazola, and Nappy Lamare, Prima belongs to the second generation of hot musicians from the New Orleans white district. He grew up on the strong musical diet of "Papa" Laine, Dave Perkins, "Yellow" Nunez, "Stale Bread" Lacoume and others of that calibre, who played in what has been called the New Orleans white style...
...Otis & Co. ad offering a new bond issue. In the underwriting syndicate: Chock-Full O'Nuts, S. Klein, Good Humor, Inc., Army & Navy Stores, Inc., Diet Smith, B. O. Plenty, and Your Friendly Socony Dealer...
...narration of the film is sharp, simple and unsentimental. Some of the unposed shots are as moving as any the war has produced: a sobbing woman, a bony child trembling with malnutrition and fever, old people living on a diet of garbage and misery. The film adds up to 19 very disturbing, very uncomfortable minutes...
...rationing the answer? Herbert Hoover thought not. "If we can succeed in persuading every man and woman, every nation to do their utmost, we shall master this famine." His familiar suggestions for closing the gap without rationing: 1) voluntary reduction in diet by every U.S. citizen; 2) get every grain of cereal to market...
Next day the Nippon show was closed. Diet Member Ishida was on the carpet at Allied Headquarters. Said he: the songs might have been "a little careless . . . but words of advice and warning must be given to Japanese girls...