Word: dixielanders
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...return to Manhattan, ample Jack went whole hog, rented an entire seven-car train (including three club cars) from several railroads and rolled out of Los Angeles last week in imperial style. Price of the ticket for Gleason, 45 "pals," including six dancing girls and a six-piece Dixieland jazzband aboard what the banners proclaim THE GREAT GLEASON EXPRESS...
...evening if he has a mind to). There is plenty to do, and the way is never blocked by cover charges. At the Opera House, where a frieze of 2,500 croquet balls ("I got them all for $8." says the proprietor) and mallets decorates the walls, there is Dixieland jazz. The Vanity Fair, a sort of English pub is built mostly from old telephone booths painted red and black. O'Connell's features Irish pipers, who lead customers in impromptu parades up and down the square. Bustles & Bowes has draught beer and sawdusty floors; the Roaring Twenties...
...past year, the regime has cautiously permitted the opening of a few attractive clubs, such as Moscow's Aelita, where young people can sip soft drinks or wine and dance to Dixieland. The snag: Komsomol (Young Communist League) trusties at the door see that only the faithful get in. Young Russians yearn for spring, when they can flee jampacked apartments for the parks. Although Russia is generally a pristine society, on dance floors young couples often lock themselves in a pelvic polka that makes the twist look like a minuet...
...music in New York, you can hear everything from Rhythm and Blues at the Apollo Theater through Dixieland at the Metropole to modern and mainstream jazz at Birdland and the Five Spot...
...later laws largely curbed the worst abuses of the snake-oil salesmen, but the "desire to take medicine" that Osier noted still dies hard. The biggest medicine-show extravaganza of all, says Author Carson, was staged in 1950 with Dixieland bands and Hollywood stars to promote a $1.25-a-bottle tonic that pulled in millions for a spellbinding Louisiana legislator named Dudley J. LeBlanc. The potion was called Hadacol, and it contained 12% alcohol. The Hadacol empire wound up in a tangle of bankruptcy proceedings...