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...straighten and pave Peggy's Cove Road. Says one of the younger residents, 53-year-old George Swinimer: "I'll be glad to see the pavement. The artists like Peggy's the way it is more than I do. I would like to see even a jukebox...
...Miller's custom-made trombone. Last week crowds who jammed into the huge casino heard the familiar sweet ballad style-a clear, wan clarinet leading a throaty quartet of saxophones in the melody, backed by a powerhouse of brass-that had once made Glenn Miller the No. 1 jukebox favorite...
...Gang. Twenty-five years ago, Jimmy was a thin, good-looking kid who had been playing the cornet ever since he could remember. He and the gang at Austin High spent their time practicing in vacant houses, playing for P.T.A.-sponsored dances and listening to an old jukebox in the Straw and Spoon, a Coke joint across the street from Austin High. When they weren't practicing themselves, they were listening to the big-timers-to King Oliver, the great New Orleans Negro trumpeter, or Beiderbecke and the Wolverines. Other Chicago kids began sitting in with the Austin High...
...Neither war, rationing, nor the advent of the atomic age had altered U.S. teenagers' preoccupation with malted milk, two-hour telephone calls and jukebox music" [TiME, March...
Liquor in the Jukebox. Konstantin ("a playwright must be a politician") Simonov made his source studies when he toured the U.S. last year under the auspices of the American Society of Newspaper Editors.* He brought back a strange picture. According to the play, the Average U.S. Newsman drinks a glass of whiskey, straight, about every two minutes, habitually refers to himself as a pig, and talks of little else except money, being ridden by what Pravda, in a playful mood, recently called "dollarium tremens." In the newsmen's bar of Act I, even the coat hooks are gilded...