Word: downtowners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weeks, Bobby Hackett had been doing his own double-in-brass. He went through his routine studio chores with easy, sweet-playing confidence. Then he went to work downtown, playing the most melodic hot trumpet in the land. So far the pace was telling on neither the man nor his music...
...born in a cottage back of a Cleveland firehouse, the son of Charles Alden Seltzer, an ex-cowpuncher who wrote westerns. Louis quit school at 10 to be a copy boy on the late Leader, became a cub reporter at 18. One day a new building collapsed in downtown Cleveland. Down three flights of stairs from the old Press city room scampered Seltzer on his way to the scene. On a landing he caromed into big-bellied Publisher E. W. Scripps, who picked him up, held him at arm's length and asked what was the hurry. Piped Seltzer...
...more lung power than political strength. The delegates, except for those from Mississippi and Alabama, were political outs and has-beens. Most bigwig Southern politicos pointedly stayed away. Even Arkansas' Governor Ben Laney, who had withdrawn as the rebels' favorite son at Philadelphia, remained aloof in his downtown hotel room, contented himself with offering advice...
...does not hobnob with his neighbors, but they frequently see him toiling up the hill in leather-thonged sandals, slacks and sports shirt, his arms full of groceries. With his wife Vera, he worships regularly at the Greek Orthodox Church in downtown Los Angeles. He seldom goes to parties, because, says Sapiro, "he meets so many people who think they know all about music-and particularly his music...
When Acme's photographer handed Blumenfeld the fight pictures, away went the ambulance, the siren screaming. The pictures were developed on the way and sent to Acme's clients from a downtown office well ahead of the competition. At the next big fight, six ambulances were parked outside. Recalls Blumenfeld fondly: "We had a regular Roman chariot race down Park Avenue...