Word: jugs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Divorced. Sammy Kaye, 46, jug-eared "Swing and Sway" bandleader; by Ruth Knox Kay, 46; after 16 years of marriage, no children; in Cleveland...
...question whether any law or regulation had been violated by the shipment from Parke, Davis & Co. to Johns Hopkins. One thing was certain: from now on, airline pilots will want to know about it whenever they carry anything as dangerous as a ten-quart jug of polio virus. Captain Tappe's cargo was the Mahoney strain of virus, which causes most paralysis...
...showed signs of detesting violin sounds from the time he started making them at the age of six. But they kept his bow to the catgut. At 18 he entered the Moscow conservatory, became a master class student. His teacher: father. Last week Fiddler Igor, a thin, large-faced, jug-eared man of 25, was scything an energetic swath through German concert halls, harvesting hurrahs and reaping reviews that said if he is not already as good as his daddy, he soon will...
...tended cattle. He grew up to have the Russian peasant's rough manners (even today he sometimes stuffs his mouth with food at public banquets, picks his teeth with his fingers). He was short (5 ft. 5 in.) and thickset with a round face and jug ears. He had small, dark, merry, merciless eyes and was as shrewd and crafty as he looked...
...nobody on a horse . . . with bad teeth, broken bones, a double hernia and lice." The self-description sits James Cagney, the bad man of the title, like Cagney sits a horse. The actor is now 52, but what a hoss-bustin', man-killin', skirt-rippin', jug-totin' buckaroo he can still believably pretend to be. He runs horses on his range, hangs rustlers from his trees, and keeps the home fires burning with a plenty hot number (Irene Papas) who smokes wicked little black cigars between the acts. "I want you feisty!" Cagney croaks, and, just...