Word: donegan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Judge Clancy thanked the jurors for their long and assiduous service. They had been sitting for 18 months, investigating subversive activities. Special Assistant Attorney General Thomas J. Donegan informed the court that the jury had been unable to finish its work, and that now, since its term was ended, the Hiss-Chambers case was being turned over to a new jury.* Reporters rushed for telephones to report that no action had been taken. "No indictments!" someone exclaimed. U.S. Attorney John F. X. McGohey looked startled. "Of course there's an indictment," he said, "didn...
...offering odds as to who will relieve Fielding. The following quotations came hot off the back room board as we went to press; P. Bennett, 1 1/2 -2; J. Donegan 15-7 1/4; A. Murphy 2 1/4 -1/2; T. Sweeny 5 rubles to a dime; C. Collins 2 ib steel to an ounce of copper...
This spastic inspiration is not something Pianist Donegan has learned. In fact, she spent a lot of time trying to unlearn it. Dorothy was born on Chicago's dusky South Side, still lives there. Her father is a dining-car chef. When Dorothy was eight, her mother, who had always wanted to play the piano but could never get near enough to one to learn how, decided that, come what may, Dorothy must have lessons. Dorothy got them at the Chicago Conservatory of Music, where she studied classical music for four years. The Conservatory's high-brow teachers...
...feature of Dorothy Donegan's swing piano playing is her footwork. Newcomers at Elmer's Cocktail Lounge sometimes swear that she has a drum concealed under the piano. She has not. That incessant triple-fortissimo thud that punctuates Dorothy's improvisations comes simply from Dorothy's ample feet, hitting the floor boards in loud, unconscious ecstasy...
...last week that thud had helped Dorothy Donegan to an offer from Duke Ellington's band, another offer from Manhattan's Cafe Society...