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Mackenzie King listened dutifully. By 1 p.m. he was lunching alone on shipboard on soup, roast beef, potatoes, cauliflower, ice cream, coffee. By mid-afternoon he was drinking tea, eating toast and jam on a special train bound for London. At 5:30 he was in London's Waterloo Station. Half an hour later he was on his way, by car, to the Chequers home of Britain's Prime Minister Clement Attlee. By Monday mid-morning bustling Mr. King was in his suite at London's Dorchester Hotel, laying out a schedule for the coming week...
Johnny recalled the informal atmosphere at the weekly Sunday afternoon jam sessions, where one could walk around with a drink in had sans the bother of officials attempting to enforce Boston's Sunday liquor laws. Everyone in jazz, even those in service stationed nearby, was sure to drop in at the Ken. PeeWee the Great came in one Sunday and stayed for a few weeks. Three or four Pepsi's flavored by the smoky atmosphere were sufficient to send Mr. Russell to dreamland, so the drummer invested in a small bell which gave with resonance when tapped by a drum...
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...