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...nicknaming whimsey. The President calls his Secretary of the Treasury "Henry the Morgue." Columnist Johnson toyed with "Harry the Hop," "Fanny the Perk," "Danny the Rope," "Leo the Hen," "Harold the Ick," "Alben the Bark"-then gave up and said: "Try this new White House game on your acquaintances, mah frens...
...This here's Slick Jones, mah drummer," explained Fats, pointing toward a wavy - haired youth. "We calls him Slick because if you dean watch out, he'll sneak off with yo' woman. You tested indignantly, but Fats went on to know, Slick as in slimy." Slick prosay that his real name is Wilmore. A shriek of laughter came from the five saxophonists. Unperturbed, Slick said that cold chills came over him when he heard Andre Kostelanetz and his orchestra. Asked if he didn't lose weight after his torrid drum solos several times a day, Slick said no, he seemed...
...latest song is called "What Will I Do in the Morning." Fats calls it his "nine-dollar" song because he spent that much for the "Scheherazade" album by Rimsky-Korsakoff, from which he has borrowed the theme. He likes college audiences and says that playing for them is "mah greatest thrill...
...number of north country inhabitants that have cut the wood off their slopes--except the stumps--and who pray for snow with which ton lure the city slickers makes it doubtful. In its position in the national economy skiing may well be held a phenomenon comparable to mah jong, mumbledy-peg, or peewee golf...
game manufacturers found that in 1936 Bingo was their best seller, with unit sales (from 10? to $12 the game) likely to surpass the last great fad game, Mah-jongg (1924). In New Jersey alone, reported Lawyer Berlin, 200 Bingo operators are netting $300,000 a week, the average game drawing more than 1,000 players. Firms now flourish which go into a parish house, lodge or theatre, run a Bingo party on a percentage basis. Though the Bishop of Albany frowned upon Bingo simply because it is scandalous, his fellow bishops technically are under no obligation...