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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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
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...