Word: louie
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sang tenor, picked up loose change by serenading through the red-light district. Says Armstrong: "A drunk come along, and maybe he'd give us a dollar. The grown folks were workin' for a dollar a day then." Only his mother was still calling him Little Louie. To everyone else he was Dippennouth or Satchelmouth. Satchelmouth was soon shortened to Satchmo, and it stuck. (Armstrong still favors the name, has emblazed it on his stationery. His specially blended cologne is Satchmo...
Paced by backs Bill Borah and Hugh Raphael, and end Louie Garelick, Straus downed Weld South 18 to 0. Borah and Raphael both tossed touchdown aerials by hitting Fran McCoy and Garelick respectively...
What Makes Louie Run. The man who makes the heart beat is short (5 ft. 5 in.), impish Louie Seltzer, just starting his 21st year as boss of the Press. Seltzer was born in a cottage back of a Cleveland firehouse, the son of Charles Alden Seltzer, an ex-cowpuncher who wrote westerns. Louis quit school at 10 to be a copy boy on the late Leader, became a cub reporter at 18. One day a new building collapsed in downtown Cleveland. Down three flights of stairs from the old Press city room scampered Seltzer...
There were 9,525 Messengers in Memphis last week-the largest number of delegates ever to attend an annual Southern Baptist Convention. High on the agenda: the choice of a successor to President Louie De Votie Newton, a fundamentalist in his religion but a wide-eyed Russophile in his politics. The convention picked a home-town boy for the job: Dr. Robert Greene Lee, 61, of Memphis' Bellevue Baptist Church, the largest white Baptist congregation east of the Mississippi. He is famed for his preaching-especially for his spellbinding sermon, "Pay Day Some Day," on King Ahab...
...Louie & Muggsy, I love...