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...9/20/55. Beleave me, this is a helluva way to spend my birthday...
...some of the gayer New Orleans brothels, came to be regarded as one of the best jazzmen in the U.S., but never managed to make a steady living at it. Once he ran a pants-pressing establishment in Harlem and only made music after hours. "We done a helluva lot of pressing in the mornings," he recollects. In 1949 he settled down in Paris. Ordinarily, he may be heard in a Left Bank boite called Club du Vieux Colombier, where beer comes high ($2 a bottle) and the inevitable French jitterbug couples in turtleneck sweaters make dancing perilous. Sidney...
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Humphrey Bogart: "I got a helluva good racket of my own ... I don't have the time and I don't trust the medium yet . . . You watch that stuff some time . . . Instead of being five foot eleven, you're four foot three. I'll wait until they get straightened out." Van Heflin feels that a series of weekly TV shows, for a movie actor, "can very easily mean the complete destruction of his career in motion pictures. The audience gets used to getting something for nothing, and then does not want to turn around...
Seton Hall Basketball Coach John ("Honey") Russell is fond of saying: "With Walter Dukes, you could play four midgets and still have a helluva team." In the next breath, Russell is apt to reverse himself and announce that towering (6 ft. 11 in.) Dukes would not be any good without his present playmates. The truth lies somewhere in between. Last week Seton Hall's Dukes & Co. was the nation's No. 1 team (for the third week in a row in both A.P. and U.P. polls); Dukes was third among major-college scorers* (average: 26.86 points a game...