Word: drakes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mairzy Doats was written two years ago by three affable-looking Broadway song writers named Milton Drake, Jerry Livingston and Al Hoffman. Drake got the idea from the infant prattle of his daughter, Niela. Last month Jack Robbins decided to take a chance on it. By last week, with a sale of 350,000 sheet-music copies, it was already the biggest Tin Pan Alley freak hit since Yes, We Have No Bananas and The Music Goes 'Round and Around. Bandleader Al Trace, who had introduced the song at Broadway's Hotel Dixie, had made the first recording...
...weeks before the Gilberts invasion CINCPAC Chester W. Nimitz issued a directive ordering fleet, force and unit commanders to extend fullest cooperation to correspondents everywhere. His brusque public-relations officer, Commander Waldo Drake (onetime Los Angeles Timesman), picked the correspondents to be taken along, decided which should go in planes, on carriers, in landing parties...
This week the Army had the last laugh. From five bids for the Stevens it chose to take $5,251,000 cash on the barrelhead from Arnold Kirkaby, who already owns Chicago's Drake and Blackstone Hotels...
...Chicago's white-gloved Drake Hotel, around a decorously felted table, A.F. of L.'s Executive Council had conferred long and windily over taking John L. Lewis and the United Mine Workers back into the fold. On the first day they listened to taciturn Lloyd A. Thrush, president of A.F. of L.'s Progressive Mine Workers,* whose specialty is a passionate hatred of John L. Lewis...
Combined operations are no new thing, says Recorder Saunders. "The inevitable consequence of sea power," they were practiced by Drake against the Spaniards in 1585, by Lords Essex and Howard against Cadiz in 1596, by Wolfe against Quebec in 1759, by a grandson of the great Duke of Marlborough against the French in 1758. Long in the mind of Britain's Lieut. Colonel D. W. Clarke, today's Commandos were shaped from Clarke's knowledge of guerrilla warfare in Palestine...