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...listed him as leader. Among new recordings, three of the best have one thing in common: Flanagan's uplifting presence. On Moodsville's Make Someone Happy, he is the artful tailor who sews up the holes in Coleman Hawkins' aged zoot suit; on Columbia's "Jem," he makes lyric corsages and pins them all on Gerry Mulligan; and on Riverside's new adventure with...
...Tommy Burns halted Irish Jem Roche in Dublin in 1 min. 28 sec., and Joe Louis knocked out Max Schmeling in 2 min. 4 sec. in their rematch in June...
...Latin for twins. Spacemen pronounce it jem...
...probably because he has "shy ways," but possibly -an explanation the children much prefer-because his relatives have chained him to his bed. Dill has the notion that Boo might be lured out if a trail of lemon drops were made to lead away from his doorstep. Scout and Jem try a midnight invasion instead, and this stirs up so much commotion that Jem loses his pants skittering back under the fence...
...anything has a streak-a peculiar streak, or a morbid streak, or one involving a little ladylike tippling at Lydia Pinkham bottles filled with gin. The Finch family streak is a good deal more serious -it is an overpowering disposition toward sanity. This is the flaw that makes Jem interrupt the boasting of a lineage-proud dowager to ask "Is this the Cousin Joshua who was locked up for so long?" And it is what compels Lawyer Atticus Finch, the children's father, to defend a Negro who is charged with raping a white woman. The rape trial, Jem...