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...skis in winter, and in summer, he shyly admits, he likes to "listen to the birds." Lately he has been working on a Negro folk opera Dreamy Kid (based on a one-act play by Eugene O'Neill). Jimmie plays three nights a week in a Jamaica bar & grill. He turns down other offers. "I don't want to be held up by hard and fast rules now-I want to give all my time to my studies...
...corporal spoke dreamily of the nights in Howie Dryman's Texaco Bar & Grill across the river from Vincennes, Ind. 'I'll smoke fresh cigarets,' he said, 'not cigarets that's beat up and spilling both ends...
...landed in vaudeville as "Ben, The Eccentric Violinist." In the early '20s he formed one of the country's leading dance bands (for a while his pianist was Oscar Levant). For years he set the beat at Chicago's College Inn and Manhattan's Roosevelt Grill. On the radio his pseudo-feuding with Walter Winchell became as famous as the sign-off he gave Jan. 15 for the last time: "Au revoir, a fond cheerio, a bit of toodle-oo, God bless you, and pleas-ant dreams...
...sand and heat. Fuel and water run short. The crew picks up first a mixed batch of English and Empire men, later a Sudanese soldier (Rex Ingram) and his Italian prisoner (J. Carrol Naish), finally an arrogant young Nazi ace (Kurt Krueger). Half dead with thirst, this military mixed grill at last reaches an abandoned well, finds a choked dribble of water. There, as they die off one by one, the Allied men manage through a series of improbable strata-ferns and heroisms to hold off and capture an entire German battalion...
...Washington's Warren Magnuson spent little time in his cubbyhole office, but could be seen day or night in the lobby or grill of Seattle's Olympic Hotel, where he talked to hundreds of Seattleites. One day he dressed up in kilts, marched down to Victory Square to greet a group of visiting bagpipers from a Vancouver shipyard. The talk he heard made Democrat Magnuson uneasy. Said he: "The temper of the people is alarming. We've got to streamline these war agencies or the people will swing too far and have them abolished entirely...