Word: gene
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...What He Wanted. But had it? Like his daddy, the late, loud Gene, who purposefully played the peckerwood, Hummon stood for 1) keeping "the Nigras" in their place, 2) keeping the wool-hat back-country control over the shoe-wearing big-city majority, 3) perpetuating in office the Talmadge dynasty, its heirs and assigns. That's what he wanted and that's what...
...formed "Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five" (Satchmo, Clarinetist Johnny Dodds, Trombonist Kid Ory, Johnny St. Cyr on the banjo and second wife Lil Hardin Armstrong on the piano) to make recordings of his best numbers for Okeh. When he played Chicago, such youngsters as Bix Beiderbecke, Benny Goodman, Gene Krupa and Eddie Condon, who were to help create the "Chicago school" of jazz, sat and listened worshipfully. All of them now make their bow to Louis. Says Drummer Krupa: "No band musician today on any instrument, jazz, sweet, or bebop, can get through 32 bars without musically admitting...
...production to meet the gargantuan demand, industry had expanded its plants to the tune of $18.7 billion during the year. Much of the expansion had been bought with profits and reserves, because there was a grave shortage of risk capital to finance it. As Jersey Standard's Gene Holman said: "Without our high profits we couldn't have expanded the way we did." The oil industry, which had rolled up the "biggest profits of any industry ($2 billion), was a classic example of the way profits had been put to work...
That Wonderful Urge (20th Century-Fox) is a stale, wearisome slapstick sermon on the text "You, Too, Can Be Happy, Though Rich." The example is a tabloid reporter (Tyrone Power) who writes scurrilous stories about a chain-store heiress (Gene Tierney). Disguised as a playboy-author, he pursues her to Sun Valley, and she develops an odd urge to share more of her time-and maybe her millions-with him. To most reporters, this might seem like very sweet vengeance, if you can get it; to Reporter Power, the whole idea is repugnant...
...hoped to blow up a hurricane was 35-year-old Gene Moore, a dapper Manhattanite who works with 14 assistants in a cluttered hideaway at Fifth Avenue's sleek Bonwit Teller's. Every week Moore designs 21 new windows...