Word: hops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Author-Columnist Fisher sums up: "I'm against columnists. I can sit with a friend and talk things over and he might say I'm full of hop and maybe I am. But when I write something in the paper hundreds of readers take it seriously. They give it disproportionate weight...
...proposed reopening of the Copley Square's Hop Scotch Room hit more than the usual number of technical hurdles and so the public debut of Charlie Vinal's Rhythm Kings goes by the boards. The great disappointment is that apparently the band was assured of success. One hundred and forty-six reservations had been made for the first Saturday night by Harvard servicemen alone, with the ASTP and V-12 responsible for the greater part of this surprising figure...
...Hop Scotch Room of the Copley Square Hotel is reopening Friday night with Charlie Vinal's Rhythm Kings, the only dixieland jazz band in eNw England. The venture is being backed by Dick Schmidt of Milton and two Harvard servicemen who hope that Army, Navy, and Marine students stationed around the campus will drop in, if only to be helpful...
...Fridays and Saturdays, with no cover, no minimum. The soldiers backing the band trust that their fellow servicement and Harvard undergraduates will figure that they're going SOMEWHERE for a few drinks on Saturday nights--so why not help out their colleagues by making the Copley Squares Hop Scotch Room...
...mere plants will not do it. The Army must convince U.S. workers that the tractor, while not as glamorous as a P-47, is even more essential in many areas. Sorest pressed is the South Pacific, where each island hop forward means not only virtual abandonment of rear bases, but a huge new construction job. In effect, the U.S. will cross the Pacific at the speed of a tractor...