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...want to know what we had in those bags, Doc? Well, we had nicknames, for one thing. A well turned nickname was always good for a belly laugh. There once was a Lieutenant named House. We called him Flop. Not to his face, of course, but he probably got the ideas, and we certainly did. It was not too funny, but good for our battered Egos. Then there was one from Old Nassau (a fine example of the manic depressive among College Men At War) whom we thought should be called Tiger...
Marks put Paper Doll on the market, but it was still a flop. By the early '30s Johnny Black had given up music to run a roadhouse near Hamilton, Ohio. Outside this resort in 1936, in a brawl with a customer over 25?, Johnny Black was knocked down. His head hit the pavement, and his assailant drove off. Three days later Johnny Black was dead...
...mooning out of every radio and juke box in the U.S. The top song hit of the month, Paper Doll had a sheet-music sale of more than 500,000 copies and a phonograph-record sale of close to a million. It was proving again that yesterday's flop may live to be today's smash, and recalling the story of a very woebegone resident of Tin Pan Alley...
Suspicious Mr. Kaiser. But blunt Mr. Kaiser made no secret of what he thought was the real reason. Aircraft makers had been scoffingly certain that the tremendous Kaiser-Hughes plane would be a flop. (Where will he get the plant? The men? The engineers? The materials? Besides, the U.S. doesn't need it.) Now, said Mr. Kaiser, they were worried lest it be a success. They feared, with good reason, said he, that it would put Shipbuilder Kaiser years ahead in the race for a postwar plane...
Satire, Ridicule. When Señor Délano, Chile's pioneer motion-picture producer, launched Topaze in 1931, his friends predicted it would flop. It clicked from the start. Last week, twelve years old, it was prospering (45,000 subscribers, in a country of only 5,000,000 inhabitants, 55% illiterate...