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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...assure you that George is very much a part of the ensemble. . . . George does not play "Chicago Style"-or anything like it! He plays one of the roughest, guttiest, wide-open-est sliphorns to which it has been my pleasure to listen, and his style is distinctly New Orleans, if we must stylize music. . . . It is probably apocryphal, but I have heard that George can lie flat on his back on the floor, permit a man to stand on his stomach, and then will play Tiger Rag on his trombone with his feet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 11, 1941 | 8/11/1941 | See Source »

...listen, men, if it happens again That a hidebound old officer's near, Don't whistle and yell when you see something swell -Be content with a general leer! LEWIS F. OWEN Oradell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 11, 1941 | 8/11/1941 | See Source »

This week Franklin Roosevelt invited nine members of the House and Senate (including Republicans Austin of Vermont and Wadsworth of New York) to the White House, sat them down to listen to General Marshall. What they heard they kept generally to themselves. But anybody could guess it. The blunt fact was that only two of the Army's 33 divisions (the First and Third) could be kept relatively intact if the U.S.'s one-year soldiers were sent home. The other regular outfits would have to start all over again. Draftees would have to be lugged back from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Two Times Two | 7/21/1941 | See Source »

...While 11,500,000 cinemaddicts sit in their favorite cinemansions of an average Sunday, 34,000,000 radio fans listen to Jack Benny on the air. On an average Monday 5,428,000 go to the movies; 26,000,000 stay at home to hear the Lux Radio Theatre program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Boy Meets Facts | 7/21/1941 | See Source »

Among the shops and cafes that crowd the sidewalks of East 85th Street, Manhattan, the Little Casino Bar Restaurant at No. 206 was barely noticeable. Men & women came and went with a great air of having nothing to do but listen to the juke box playing soft German tunes. Richard Eichenlaub and his plump wife placidly drew beer, placidly dished out Wiener Schnitzel. One day early this week, Herr Eichenlaub suddenly disappeared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Spies! | 7/7/1941 | See Source »

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