Word: forgotten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tubby, easygoing Fred Emich holds a $6,000-a-year state government job in Illinois, but for good & sufficient reasons he has never forgotten that twelve years ago he was a Chevrolet dealer. Last week his long-extinct dealership made Fred Emich a millionaire, at least on paper...
...employ live musicians only on a casual basis and have indicated no present inclination to staff their stations with live musicians." The argument sounded fine; the only trouble with it, said the televisers, was a longstanding Petrillo ban against the employment of live musicians in television. Petrillo had apparently forgotten his own ruling...
...only thorough-going solution seems to be the general examination, but here again we have the cramming, frantic last minute marshalling of seattered, half-forgotten facts, and a few hours of furious exam writing. The oral exam would seem to obviate this, but, having given a man sixteen courses in four years, it is a little hard to admit that you haven't really taught him very much, and, consequently, the oral examiners have to set their sights fairly low if they don't intend to flunk out a large number of students...
...across the Bidassoa River bridge at Hendaye. At 8:20 next morning, the de luxe Pyrenées-Côte d'Argent Express pulled into Hendaye station. And there the glistening blue cars sat for four hours, caught in a snarl of bureaucratic red tape. Paris had forgotten to order the Hendaye station master to let the train through, and he liked to have his orders. Sixty of the passengers, members of Milan's La Scala Opera, volubly wondered if they would get to Lisbon in time for their performance of Rigoletto. Paris finally sent "a thousand...
Though Jimmy was playing boogie 30 years ago and could make a fair claim to being its inventor, he and his compositions had been almost forgotten, even by the jazzophiles. Jimmy had never tried to remind them. He had hit the big time before he was 15, playing the Orpheum circuit, and even a command performance before Britain's King & Queen. Then he got interested in baseball, spent his days playing with the Chicago Ail-Americans and his nights playing piano in the city's brass-spittooned bars, sometimes for drinks, sometimes for money. Gradually, he evolved...