Word: jam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Negro authors generally, says Ebony, "are hitting pay dirt," and the royalties of onetime Communist Richard (Native Son, Black Boy) Wright (pictured with his white wife) "make a pretty fat bankroll." Ebony prints Gjon Mill's excellent shots of mixed jam sessions to show how jazz promotes good feeling between whites & blacks, reminds its readers of unpleasantness only with a picture story on Brazil headlined: "Starving Negroes Can't Eat Racial Equality." Despite the fact that her show folded before it reached Broadway, Ebony's 19-year-old pin-up girl Sheila Guys (caption: "A Star Fizzles...
Germany has already absorbed about six million of its D.P.s from territories taken over by the Poles and Czechs. Two million more now jam the roads to Berlin...
...swung ashore at the Gulf, assembled into trucks on the spot and filled with supplies. Frequently the supply trucks were across the border into Russia before the Liberty ship which brought them had weighed anchor. Truck drivers worked 20-hour shifts, often on a diet of Spam and bread & jam. A hundred Diesel locomotives hauled tanks, planes, jeeps, command cars, fire engines and ammunition over the tottering railway...
...Canteen's noisy weekends are coolly run by matronly Mrs. Harry Lee Virden, an Episcopal Army chaplain's wife, who assigns classic-minded musicians to practice rooms on the second floor, and jam fans to the third floor. The resultant uproar from the 28 unsoundproofed cubbyholes usually involves the trial flights of several singers, a dozen pianists, a hot accordion, strings and horns, all at once. One soldier motorcycles up from Ft. Belvoir (Va.) for violin lessons from Author Catherine Drinker Bowen (Yankee from Olympus...
...life. The story concerns the efforts, of two taxi-dancers (Jane Frazee, Joan Woodbury) and their boss (John Calvert) to get money out of two soldiers (Jimmy Lloyd, Robert Scott). The charm of the picture is in the redolent staging of scenes in the dance hall, at a jam session, a crap game; and in the fact that all these characters perform as unaffectedly as if they had no idea there was a camera around-or even that movie characters must be either utterly good or utterly evil. In its wholly unpretentious way, this is easily the most sympathetic picture...