Word: hepped
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...Tell you how I look at it," said a U.S. radio commentator-thoroughly hep to his country's new position in the world-to a recently visiting Briton. "Guam is our chief base in the Pacific, and naturally we don't expect Guam to be selfsupporting. Now England, you see, is our chief base in Europe, and of course we've got to carry it-just like Guam...
...natural death people supposed he did: he was done in by his wife and her lover (Claire Luce* and Donald Cook). Then it quickly lets the murderers know, by means of a taunting anonymous letter, that they aren't quite getting away with it: someone is hep to their deed...
Obviously Marshal Tito was just a square. He wasn't hep and neither was Yugoslavia's newspaper Glas. Said Glas: jazz is "senseless, impossible combinations of sounds calculated to arouse the lowest, most atavistic and long-suppressed instincts in man." Worse than that, added Glas, it is "music conditioned and tied up with capitalist society...
...Japanese and the Danes had to face it: they just weren't hep. They were confused and not often amused by the out-of-this-world conversation of American G.I.s and by the latest U.S. movies and books. How could they get with it? Last week, dictionaries offering what was. hopefully called the lowdown on the American language were near-sellouts in both Denmark and Japan...
Paul ("King of Jazz") Whiteman had a new drummer: Paul Whiteman Jr., 21, who was making his professional debut in Manhattan. Papa's judgment: "Hep, sharp and slick...