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...Anchorage is the Lido Gardens, where dinner is $5 and watery highballs are 75? apiece. But the steak is the best that side of Chicago, the vegetables are quick-frozen and the chef gets $800 a month. The place has no orchestra (manpower shortage) but displays an elegant juke box-and the prettiest Civil Service employes in Anchorage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Northland Boom | 8/16/1943 | See Source »

...pads." The tea pad may be anything from a rented room to a suite in a fashionable hotel. Usually it is dimly lighted with colored lamps and reeks of incense burned to cover the telltale, bonfire-like odor of burning marijuana. Most tea pads are supplied with a juke box (known in marijuanese as a "piccolo"). Clients who have assembled to "have a pad" may smoke their own reefers. But commonly they blast the goof-butt collectively, passing a single reefer around from mouth to mouth like a pipe of peace. Next morning, enjoying a heavy sensation very much like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Weed | 7/19/1943 | See Source »

...club that dominates Negro baseball is not Effa's Eagles but the Homestead (Pa.) Grays, originally founded for the diversion of Carnegie Steel employes and now owned by two Homestead Negroes: Cum (for Cumberland) Posey, a member of the Board of Education, and Sonnyman (for Rufus) Jackson, a juke-box impresario. So far this season, the Grays have won 18 league games, lost only four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Josh the Basher | 7/19/1943 | See Source »

...Navy is going to fix up Bernard Bob with a special set of flags to work right form his seat in Code so he won't have to go up to the rostrum between classes . . . The Navy Wives again urge the Lads to trip the light fantastic a la juke box on Monday nights at Phillips Brooks between 9 and 10 . . . Tickets for the Regimental Ball on the 26th will be limited to 500 so get yours as soon as they go on sale...

Author: By S. O. Melvin parnell, | Title: Flotsam and Jetsam | 5/14/1943 | See Source »

Question & Answer. In Columbus, Ohio, William Oliver told the judge why he had sabotaged a juke box; every time he tried to get I Wonder What's Become of Sally he got an answer: Somebody Else Is Taking My Place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 5, 1943 | 4/5/1943 | See Source »

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