Word: ll
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clock that night Little Happiness emerged, issued a statement to the press: "I'll broadcast more than ever. I'm preparing my will, and I hope the newspapers will print it if I'm beaten to death...
...time on a gunman's rod. A Philadelphia theater had him under contract but that didn't stop the burly boys sent by Harlem's Cotton Club which wanted him for their new show. One of them told the Philadelphia manager: "Be big or you'll be dead." The quaking manager gave up Ellington. The Duke and his jittery band arrived at the Cotton Club a few minutes before opening time...
This summer he will play a concert in the Hollywood Bowl for the first time. He is also thinking about a musical salute to the African Negro republic, Liberia. He adds, lazily: "I'm thinking about it. I'll decide pretty quick if I want to keep on thinking about...
...sidestep qualifying matches. His usual lethargic, mañana attitude was gone, replaced by a calm, white-toothed grin and a cannonball service. In the third round he met and disposed of Herbie Flam, 8-10, 8-6, 6-4. Said Pancho: "I don't think he'll ever beat me again unless he's playing especially good and I'm bad." It was a big victory for Pancho, even though he went on to lose to the best amateur in the U.S., Davis Cupper Jack Kramer. Pancho aced Kramer six times, won a set before...
What would the people of Ottawa do with it-her canary-colored Buick? Said Ottawa's Mayor Stanley Lewis: "I guess we'll put it in a museum with a plaque saying that due to certain people this car had to be returned to the city by Barbara Ann Scott . . . Ottawa's most beloved daughter. And I'm not joking...