Word: juke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tunes, however, especially More and More, Californ-i-ay, and the title song which is caroled in an early American bathhouse, are solid enough Kern, if a touch too operatic for the winter's juke boxes. And Miss Durbin, whose hair has been dyed a pleasing pink for her first appearance as a Technicoloratura, still sings charmingly and still suggests what she has only once had half-a-chance (in Christmas Holiday) to prove: that she is a big girl now, and could step out of her candy box to become one of the most high-powered sex-actresses...
Almost ancient now is the proposal to keep a juke box in Cowie. A spot survey showed a 100 percent willingness to "chip in" in order to keep Cowie filled with the strains of swing that greeted us on that one day. Wish someone could start the ball rolling. . . hint...
...Miller, 39, begoggled, popular trombonist and bandsman, leader of the Army Air Forces Band currently entertaining in Paris; while a passenger on a flight from England to Paris. Born in Clarinda, Iowa. Miller played with Ben Pollack, the Dorsey Bros., Ray Noble; in 1939 he became king of the juke boxes...
...Indiana had a new Senator, beaming, round-faced Republican Homer Capehart, the juke-box king, who nosed out homespun Governor Henry F. Schricker...
Indiana. Hulking, heavy-jowled millionaire Republican Homer Capehart, who manufactures juke boxes and super-phonographs and is experimenting with television, was having trouble. His opponent for the Senate: mild, homespun Democratic Governor Henry Schricker, 61, who has eaten fried chicken in almost every church basement in Indiana. Democrat Schricker shrewdly avoids discussing Term IV in Indiana...