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...graduate of Click, Look and the Annenberg Radio Digest, Purdy edited OWI's wartime propagandistic Victory (nine languages, more than 1,000,000 circ.). His job at Parade will be to put some punch into the not-so-bad, not-so-good pictorial while foghorn-voiced Red Motley puts some ads into...
...Bessic Smith? She was a big colored woman, with a voice like a mellow foghorn, a range of two notes, and a heart as big as humanity. Bessie is, indeed, the epitome of all that is good in jazz. To the uninitiated, she couldn't possibly stack up alongside Dinah. Certainly Dinah is far easier to listen to. But when you take the time to listen to Bessic, you soon find out Dinah's is the one who can't do the stacking...
...delegate from Texas, with one-twelfth vote of his own, absent John Nance Garner's proxy. One afternoon a group of fellow newsmen, bored with the New Deal's lumbering steam roller, hired an open car of ancient vintage, trimmed with brass, equipped with a raucous foghorn, and toured the hotel district bearing placards: "Timmons for Vice President...
Sweethearts. Everybody's marraine in this war as in the last is venerable, foghorn-voiced Mistinguett, 64, triumphant sexy grandma of the Folies Bergère and Casino de Paris. Her famed extremities are still as shapely as they were generations ago (see cut, p. 25). Nobody looks at her now-withered face, and since "Mees" no longer has the strength to do her Apache dances under her own power she is swung and flung about the stage by two virile youths. "Mees" last week came tottering from Bordeaux where she had been helping the Duchess of Windsor raise...
They opened another bridge in California last week. At 6 a. m. when a foghorn snorted, 18.000 people started a mass dash, each eager to be first across the Golden Gate between San Francisco and the Marin County mainland. By nightfall 178,000 had crossed on foot and each apparently had been first in "one way or another. Sprinter Donald Bryant was first man across. Esther & Ann Bullard were first twins. Carmen & Minnie Perez were first skaters. Florentine Calegari was first on stilts. A Scottie was first dog. Police rushed to aid one woman staggering along with her tongue...