Word: guys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...piano and sing in a band in which her father played bass, and Bunk Johnson played cornet. Hollywood has been hearing her in nightclubs for the past five years, but Nellie didn't really begin to catch on until Capitol recorded her He's a Real Gone Guy, Hurry On Down and You Better Watch Yourself, Bub. Her first two records have already sold nearly a million copies. Last week Nellie, now 32, received Broadway's final tribute to a popular singer, Tin Pan Alley's rough equivalent to a Stalin prize. She was signed...
...needed attention. You, that was it. He would curl up with a little cool beer and a book this afternoon. Vag chuckled at the thought of a B- or two in November to throw at his family. Then he noticed the three couples ahead of him, and the guy across the street with the familiar packages under his arm. He remembered something about a party "after the game." Vag, the student, was left in a phone booth a minute later, and a more livable, if slightly less shiny, Vag emerged and place-kicked a bottlcap neatly between the uprights...
...Staunton, Va., City Manager W. Guy Ancell hoped that, by raising the water level in the city's North River dam, he could save the $300,000 it would cost to build a new reservoir. So he tried bombing cumulus clouds with dry ice. But no rain fell. All that happened was that citizens started calling him "Old Rain-in-the Face" and an elderly constituent sternly advised him to "leave God's work alone and straighten out the traffic mess...
...told the sponsor, 'I'm the guy that can do it. Just give old Al the chance and he'll do it.' And what did they say? 'You're too old.' And I says to myself, 'Al, forgive them, they don't know what they're doin...
...both sunk as low as anyone could in the big leagues: both had suffered as managers of the lowly Philadelphia Phillies. Both had been demoted to the minors and then bounced back. Burt's workaday formula is the same as Bucky's. Says Burt: "When a guy does something wrong, that's no time to get on him. That's the time to build...