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...Mahogany Exodus. Louis was a natural. He could blow clear and true, hitting the notes hard and clean. He never had to squeeze for a high one. But for three years after he got out of the Waif's Home (his mother got "a big white man" to spring him), he was too busy driving a coal wagon to blow a note. Then one night Bunk Johnson didn't turn up, and Louis sat in for him (for $1.25 a night) at Matranga's joint on Perdido Street; even the great Joe ("there...
...Jews set about their exodus. Wrote a Spanish priest: "There was not a Christian who did not pity them." Dominican friars indefatigably tried to convert Jews and thus save them from exile. They burst into synagogues to preach the Christian gospel, but rabbis thundered back the teachings of Moses. Some Jews were converted. The majority preferred to leave their homes and their wealth behind. Many Jews removed tombstones from their cemeteries and took them along into exile. Their last ships left Spain the day before Columbus sailed for the New World...
...dangling the juicy bait of tax savings before other NBC stars, soon made off with Jack Benny. Bing Crosby, Edgar Bergen, Phil Harris, Fibber McGee & Molly, and Red Skelton were reported planning to join the exodus to CBS. This week the tax collector cut the gossip short. He had bad news for radio stars who would like to revise contracts...
Planes for the Sunday exodus are pretty well packed. American Airlines reports sellouts on all non-stop flights from 3 to 10 p.m., with only short range flights open. Eastern Airlines has only a very few seats on the 3:30 and 8:30 p.m. lifts, but Northeast has a few vacancies on all flights...
More than 3,000 years ago the Egyptians pursued the Jews out of Egypt northward into the desert. Last week in the midst of Succot, or Feast of the Tabernacles (which commemorates their ancient exodus), the Jews were again on the move. This time they were headed south, driving the Egyptians before them. With their occupation of Beersheba,* traditional southern boundary of the biblical kingdom of David and Solomon, the Jews felt they had really come home. Cabled Israel's Ben-Gurion to the forces on the southern front: "With your blood you have reforged the link with...