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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Charlie's sudden wealth reached $2,500, he had an inspirational idea: he picked up the telephone and invited the whole Packard Motor Car Co. to come out and have a beer. "I'm going to buy my wife some new clothes," he cried, "and get drunk for a week. Then I'm going to buy her a Mixmaster and get drunk again...
...kept them at full flood for two days. Finally calmed down, Margaret read a new set of lines to the press like the trouper that she is: "I had hoped mother would wait until I am 14 and grown up. But since she wants to marry now, I'm glad it's Don. I like...
...played when "the big guys"-Eddie Cantor, Irving Berlin-used to come down on weekends to plug songs. In his "more salady" days, he had been the first Negro ever to compose the complete score for a major movie: Mae West's I'm No Angel (1933). Mae had made They Call Me Sister Honky-Tonk and I Want You, I Need You memorable to her fans, but they had never really been hits on their...
...year and a half ago, Harvey had a hunch. Nine years after he had thought up his simple little tune in Omar's Dome, he took it around to Bandleader Woody Herman. Woody didn't like it, and says Harvey, "I'm glad. If Woody hadda played it with all his noise, everybody might have missed it." He took it around to Supreme Records, a small company that was looking for what Harvey calls some "catchy novelties." A sweet-singing minor songbird named Paula Watson recorded it. When the big record makers heard it, they could hardly...
...M. Goodman '51, chairman of the Council International Affairs Committee, will soon ask the Council for $200 as a start in the fund drive for DP living expenses. He estimates that each student will need $600 extra per year...