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...Austin High School crowd, which included Jimmy and Rich MacUartland, Bud Freeman, Floyd O'Brien, Frank Teschemacher, and allied members such as Dave Hough, Jess Stacy, Gene Krupa, Joe Sullivan, Muggsy Spanier, and Mezz Mezzrow. For instance, Tesch married a gal who used to pour nothing but straight gin on her corn flakes...
...produced so many good records for Columbia and Decca that even he hasn't got 'em all, enjoys nothing better than reminiscing about the old days in Chicago. He freely admits that during those old days he was in New York and somewhat unaware of the joys of gin, Jazz, and allied pursuits; but then Gibbons never met the Caesars, and at least George knows the Chicago boys as their mothers never did. This is the first of what's tending to become a series...
...Whitney should be famed in the U.S. less for his cotton gin, on which he never made a dime (his landlady blabbed about it and it was copiously copied before he could make his patents stick), than for producing the world's first manufactured goods with interchangeable parts. When he assembled the scrambled parts of ten muskets before U.S. War Department brass hats, they were as startled as if a magician had conjured them up. Besides contributing to mass production, Whitney's revolutionary discovery also helped the U.S. kill the beginnings of the slavish apprentice system...
...cognac, gin, rum and Scotch for a North Ireland officers' club, with no offsetting credit for resale of the liquor; other charges running into the millions for refundable items or for goods on which the price was later reduced...
...plays a little dollar-golf or gin rummy. He has little time these days for his stable of blooded mares, and gone are his jaunts to Scottish shooting boxes, to fox hunts in the South. His preSun career sounded like the plot of a Ronald Colman movie (English schools, the Argonne and St. Mihiel, industry, investment banking). Now, Multimillionaire Field, newly realistic, has traded it all for hard, unremitting work...