Word: goings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...forces of decency triumph. The other day, a fly-by-night peddler who was "after the cotton money" invaded Wharton County: "He said, well I'll buy a license and I said we don't sell licenses for that sort of stuff, he said then if I go ahead and I said OK I won't cry, and if some of your peddlers get shot by local citizens . . . don't you cry, he said oh well I'll put a big black circle around Wharton county and work the rest of the state and nation...
Last week Crime Collector Lowall got what he called a "dream assignment." Ep Hoyt moved in Oldtimer (59) James Hale as city editor and moved 44-year-old Gene Lowall over to the new, specially tailored job of national "crime editor." His roving commission: to go anywhere in the U.S., cover any aspects of crime "likely to interest Post readers...
...chance to get back after serving as manager of the San Diego Padres in the Pacific Coast League. Says Bucky: "San Diego is a nice town. The pay is fine. So are the folks. But it's still bush." Although the Senators were not likely to go anywhere (under his management or anybody else's), bossing the worst team in the majors was better than bossing the best in the minors...
...Jimmy Fidler. But the surest sign that they were really arriving was the hushed way the fans listened when the boys sat in with jazzbos like Drummer Zutty Singleton out at the Club 47, a Ventura Boulevard bistro where the best of Hollywood's radio and movie musicians go after work...
...Curley, the boss of the juvenile jazzbos, puts it, "We were pretty rough at first-everybody fighting for their own salad." Now, when they play together, they like to "get casual." Don Ingle does some of the arranging. Sample: their Show Me the Way to Go Home consists of 17 bars of written music, followed by the words "sing chorus" scrawled across the middle of the score sheet; at the end it demands a "jam out." They don't worry about programing. Says Ingle: "We play half what the audience wants, which is Dixieland, and the other half what...