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...been in riots in Paris, Vienna, Berlin, never got a scratch. In London a bomb passed through his apartment down to the basement; there were no casualities. No Pulitzer or other prize has ever come to him. Says he: "But once I won a Kewpie doll, throwing rings around a cane at Berlin's Luna Park...
...Japanese resistance in eastern New Guinea collapsed like a made-in-Nagasaki celluloid doll as Australian and U.S. troops joined forces in the rugged jungle country 14 miles east of Saidor. The meeting gave the Allies complete control of the Huon Peninsula, completed the destruction of a Jap force...
...Gonna Give Nobody None of My Jelly Roll." (Rest assured, though--no vocals, no rhumbas, no waltzes, not even "I Got Rhythm"). After all, anybody can turn on the radio and get "Mares Eat Oats" or "Sunday, Monday and Always." Or you can dance to "Paper Doll" from juke joint to $1.50 cover without any trouble (aside from $.90 for a week highball). But it's the hardest thing in the world to find any place that will serve you. "Tin Roof Blues,' "Original Dixieland One Step," and "Fidgety-Feet," especially with chummy program notes...
Nancy Ann Abbott leaves statistics to her business manager and partner, A. L. Rowland. She is usually incredulous when she hears her doll production translated into 180,000 yards of cloth, 3,000 gallons of paint, 1,500,000 yards of baby ribbon a year. But both partners clam up when they are asked about profits. All Partner Rowland will say about the net income on 1943's $1,000,000 gross is: "We ain't complainin...
...lighted in her honor, she trembled at their pride in her. When she found the Negroes welcoming the bride and groom with incomprehensible outcries of good nature, and her husabcand's kinfolk, wistful and old, treasuring her as if she were some lovely, fragile, enameled doll, she moved into a world of enchantment. When she dreamed with Niles in the warm, sweet air, savoring the dense, multitudinous murmur of night, watching the mansion, she knew that like her husband she would never be able to live anywhere else...