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Bloody Boogie. Early this month, fed by weeks of intertribal bitterness, open battle was joined between the Basutos and the Zulus of Johannesburg. Two Zulus were beaten to death and a Basuto leader was caught, castrated and clubbed to death. The proprietor of a lunchroom shut down his jukebox, on the theory that too many tunes like White Horse Boogie and Bennie's Second Street Special would overexcite his Zulu clients. The precaution did little good. On the following Saturday a swarming mass of Zulus marched against the Basutos, armed with clubs and spears...
...salary. In eight years the wives got $125,000 in profits for their $4,000 investment. And Commercial Carriers had no trouble at all with Hoffa's union. ¶ Hoffa and Brennan lent Eugene James $2,000 or $2,500 to start operations of a Detroit jukebox local; in return, "Jimmie" James, later accused by a Senate investigation committee of stealing $900,000 from a welfare fund, put Hoffa's and Brennan's wives on the union payroll (using their maiden names), paid them about...
Born. To Rosemary Clooney, 29, singing star of jukebox, TV and screen (Red Garters), and José Ferrer, 45, Puerto Rican-born stage actor-director (The Shrike) and film star (The Great Man): their third child, second son, prematurely (6½ months); in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Gabriel Vincente. Weight...
...Yourself. Once inside the U.S. dome, the Poles were confronted with an outlay of consumer goods as inviting as a mirage in Wonderland-the output of 323 different manufacturers. There were hi-fi radios, sewing machines with pretty demonstrators to show how they worked, a whopping big jukebox blaring out the latest in rock 'n' roll, washers, driers, electric ranges, electric can openers, a continuous fashion show with girls modeling U.S. ready-to-wear dresses at $20 and under. Out in the back of the model house was a home workshop stuffed with power tools which none...
...Jukebox Favorite...