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...following order "Sweet Sue," "Blues in B Flat," "Tea for two," "Ja Da," and "The Sheik" were attacked. One of the reed men, a startling cross between Johnny Dodds and Joe Marsala blasted out a machine gun-like obligatto in answer to the adept growlings of the slip horn, while the cornetist, feeling no doubt that he was being attacked from both sides, lashed out wildly with punchy, agitated jabs. During these gyrations, the pianist managed the almost superhuman job of bringing order out of chaos. It was a never-ending source of amazement to the bystanders that...
...probably just as well that there are only four periods of fifteen minutes each in any one football game. If the spectacle on Soldiers Field Saturday had been prolonged very much whatever elation was felt when the final horn did blow would have evaporated into nothing. A big fresh team making hash out of a smaller tired team isn't much of a show, even for the Crimson cheering section . . . There was an uneasy feeling that this team, which, as everyone knows, doesn't run up 49-0 scores that belong to Texas couldn't have been a Harvard football...
Peering over his horn-rimmed spectacles at a packed-in New Lecture Hall audience last evening, Lord Lindsay of Birker, Master of Oxford's Balliol College and Labor Party peer, said Russia on the one hand and America and England on the other are not, as some think, in utter disagreement; for on one point, they meet on common ground: each thinks the other's conception of democracy is "preposterous nonsense...
Blowing our horn loudly along...
...nearly two miles, Los Angeles' Figueroa Street is lined with used-car lots flying the flamboyant flags of dealers like "Madman" Muntz, "Wildman" Pritchard, and "Honest John." Their zany ads for buying & selling cars delight zany Angelenos. Samples: "Just sound your horn ... we pay by ear," and "I want to give them away but Mrs. Muntz won't let me ... she's crazy...