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...Gershwins. It made me want to write Broadway shows." The first Broadway show he wrote, Blackbirds of 1928, with songs like Diga Diga Doo' and I Can't Give You Anything but Love, Baby, made him famous. Jimmy confesses that he began to "rake in the loot...
...loot has included some $5 million and a Beverly Hills mansion complete with swimming pool. He has what one Hollywood agent calls "A fabulous ego. Every once in a while, someone ought to tell him that he is not, after all, Sibelius." Jimmy never worries that his inspiration will run dry: "When I was an office boy in Boston, I was a hep kid with a beat. I'm still a hep kid with a beat...
Come Again. In Tokyo, a robber stripped Tadashichiro Tamura of his clothing and money, but accepted a stirrup cup and ultimately staggered out leaving behind his own jacket, his shoes, and the loot...
...False Representative." In 1946, Sadie claims, she was nearly ruined by a magazine article which reported that her Brooklyn apartment was jampacked with program loot, and that she netted an average $35 a week in prize money. For six months, she moans, she couldn't get on a single program: "What a noive to say I make thoity-five dollars! I never won a refrigerator in all my living life. They gimme a false representative...
Among the Communists were several armed, bloodthirsty women. Two of them entered the house of Eugenia Fotinopou-lou, who was six months pregnant. Her husband had been impressed into the work crews who were loading loot into rebel trucks. When the guerrilla women heard that Fotinopoulou had been "taken away," they decided that he was a "fascist" and they fired four shots into Eugenia's swollen belly. Fotinopoulou came back from his labors for the enemy to find his wife dying. "This happened to me," he said, "just as life was beginning to smile...