Word: guys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jimmy got together a five-piece Dixieland combination for the Club Alamo in Har lem. Their output is best described by their leader: '"When we played a fox trot in dem days, we had to put up a sign and say 'Fox Trot' so a guy could know what to expect. . . . Playin' pianner, I used to have a racin' form instead of notes...
...dirty joke, either on or off stage, is his standard wheeze about the card from his girl telling him that she has a room with running water ("You better get rid of dat Indian!"). Lou Clayton, who is not given to sentimentality, describes Jimmy as "the sweetest god damned guy that ever lived." And, as his every accent suggests, Jimmy is a considerable democrat and libertarian. In 1938, when he heard of a campaign to clean up his beloved Broadway, Jimmy exploded...
Died. James Alexander Stillman, 70, socialite ex-president of the National City Bank of New York; in Manhattan. In 1921 he sued his wife "Fifi" (Anne Urquhart Potter Stillman) for divorce, sensationally and unsuccessfully alleging that the father of their son Guy was a Canadian Indian guide, Fred Beauvais. After her countercharge that Stillman was love-nesting with stage beauty Flo Leeds, he resigned his bank presidency...
...Guy Named Joe (Spencer Tracy, Irene Dunne, Van Johnson; TIME...
Close by the Daily News building was Louie's saloon, where a bookie named Moxie shined a well-tailored elbow on the bar. He met Lane next day: "Who's this guy Oxie? The cops'll be thinking he's me." Lane fumbled only an instant: "You don't know Oxie? Why that's Oxie O'Rourke, down the street." Thus Oxie got a last name...