Word: josephs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...next year Petrillo was elected international president of the A.F.M. With grandiose magnanimity, he gave his predecessor, 73-year-old Joseph Weber, a $20,000-a-year pension for life...
...Such is his power that any person who wants to play any instrument for profit must be a member of his union-or just play for his friends. This means everyone from Spike Jones, whose City Slickers would rather murder a tune than play it, to Concert Violinist Joseph Szigeti; from Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong, the king of swing trumpeters, to Susan Reed, who plays a polite zither in nightclubs. Arturo Toscanini is an honorary member but other symphony conductors, like the men in their orchestras, are obedient members of Petrillo's union...
...kindling was laid a month ago by a group of western national committeemen, who wanted Democratic headquarters to take the lead in luring Justice Douglas out of his marble building. It was touched off last week by Washington Columnists Joseph and Stewart Alsop. Their story, which went scrupulously un-denied, said that the Big Bosses-New York's Ed Flynn, Chicago's Ed Kelly and Jake Arvey, New Jersey's Frank Hague, et al.-had agreed on Douglas and had sent word to him that he could have the No. 2 spot if he wanted it. Justice...
...smartest thing that Philip Joseph Christopher Aloysius Regan ever did was to drop his nightstick and pick up a shillelagh. Shillelagh on his shoulder, an Irish grin on his handsome face, and a fine, free-swinging Irish ballad on his tongue, Phil Regan has been packing them in at the nightclubs, and attracting the kind of admirers who can help a man when he wants a little help. One night last week, he had to do two shows in two different Chicago hotels, and to get between them had to race his long, grey convertible back & forth through Chicago...
Death from gastric cancer, Napoleon was convinced, ran in his family. His grandfather, Joseph Bonaparte, died of that disease at the age of 40; so did his father, Charles, at 39. Napoleon did not like to talk about cancer but he could not conceal his fear, Miss Vincent declares: he had "a queer interest" in anatomy, particularly the anatomy of the stomach...