Word: guys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Backwoods Lombardo. Bob Wills's music is called "folk" in the trade for want of a better name; there's a lot of fig in the folk. Wills is more a backwoods Guy Lombardo than a balladeer like Burl Ives. His trick is to bring ranch-house music nearer to the city. Says he: "Please don't anybody confuse us with none of them hillbilly outfits...
...tired of being patronized by the swing kings. Says Bob: "They say, 'That guy made $340,000 last year and don't know what he's doin'.' Hell, I know what I'm doin' all right-I'm just playin' the kind of music my kind of folks like to hear...
Charlie Cole, "at times a disconcertingly bright guy" in the eyes of his friends, has been professor of history at Columbia since 1940, but has taken time out, first to serve as an OPA branch chief, pinning ceiling price tags on laundry tickets and the work of stevedores, then as a Navy instructor in Military Government. In 1943 Amherst got around to borrowing him too, to head an alumni committee to consult on postwar plans. Amherst is heading toward a system of carefully integrated freshman and sophomore years, more freedom for upperclassmen. An inveterate gardener, President Cole's prime...
Editor Green broke in on Variety as an 18-year-old collegian. Today, like all the muggs, he lives partly in a nostalgic past, haunted by Silverman's wise-guy gentleness, his scoops, his Hispano-Suizas. Variety labors to be in the know about the future of television and 16-mm.-film theaters, so that if radio or the movies go the way of vaudeville, it will still be the journalistic handmaiden of entertainment...
Soon Sailor Slobodkin (self-described as "a fat, soft guy with glasses") found himself loading cargo, eating slop and doing soogie moogie (scrubbing paint work) with a crew as oddly assorted as flotsam & jetsam on a beach. There was a union-conscious Portuguese named Perry. "His cross eyes seemed to set the motive for all his movement-when he'd sit down, he'd cross his legs, cross his arms . . . . I never saw him standing with his legs straight...