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...they are inseparable, buzz in & out of each other's houses, often leave their wives twiddling their thumbs at the gin rummy table while they rush to the piano with an idea. Each considers the other, in Hollywoodese, a "great genius." Sammy likes to say that Jule writes "a warm tune" and "lets the melody go where it wants to go." But, says Jule: "I always give the pros a chance to use their voices, usually at the end so the public knows when to stand up and clap...
...Allen has proved, the age of only yesterday, and the day before, is already history and ripe for retelling. .There is even gold to be found in ransacking the closets of the 19205-the era of the flapper and the grimacing mobster, the devotees of sex dives and bathtub gin, the frilly esthetes and champions of companionate marriage. William Hodapp has pasted together, with some success, an anthology reflecting the era through its fiction. The stories provide dramatic evidence of how drastically and quickly the patterns of U.S. life can change during a lifetime...
...Sixth Avenue bar. One man, a short, slender trumpeter with a tiny mustache, was in a hurry. Robert Leo Hackett stowed away his shining horn, flung out a hurried good night and left. Twenty minutes later he slipped into Nick's famed Greenwich Village jazz-and-gin mill, and stepped to the leader's place on the stand where five other musicians were waiting...
...almost wartime secrecy encased the meeting. Black-jacketed, blue-breeched Dutch state police in peaked caps reached for delegates' passes with their left hands, kept their right hands close to their revolver holsters. In hotel lobbies plainclothesmen sipped Bols gin, eyed everyone coming through the revolving doors. Remarked one stolid Dutch cop at the Hotel des Indes: "I don't know what we're watching for, but whatever it is, he won't get away with...
...Singapore's Bukit Timah race track the British wet their upper lips with gin & bitters and kept them stiff even when Miss Papillon, a 70-1 long shot, romped home in the third race. That was bad, but the news from across the Johore Causeway to the Malayan mainland was worse...