Word: nat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they loved. They trapped foolishly with no idea of the future. In their society a man's ability was his only passport to a raw life that revolved around beaver, whiskey, and squaws. The mountain men opened a territory and thereby insured their own extinction. Contrast the trappers with Nat Wyeth, a shrewd New England merchant with big ideas. 'On paper Wyeth was approximating John Jacob Astor." Theory wouldn't work in the Rockies and Wyeth returned without his fortune...
Unwanted Advice. Murray did not help his chances by his choice of a convention speaker. He invited Nathaniel R. Howard, president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors and editor of Cleveland's middle-roading News. Nat Howard criticized what he called the Guild's "smear tactics" in strikes. Said Howard: "Guild members have widely attacked the integrity and public intentions of the newspaper [in a strike] as a newspaper, and not as an employer. . . . A newspaper's good name with the public is something like a woman's reputation for chastity. You can foul...
...Nat Ober is back in the Jayvee shell at number three, replacing Greg Coffin, who will not make the trip because of illness. He and his mates will race Rutgers and Cornell in their heat...
Best small band: the King Cole Trio, which nine years ago was playing California cocktail bars for $25 a week apiece. Now, largely because of the casual "singing of Nat (King) Cole, son of a Negro Baptist minister, the trio earns $5,000 a week, for such songs as Straighten Up and Fly Right ("Cool down, papa, don't you blow your top") and Get Your Kicks on Route...
...Mooney himself who makes the quartet spark. He does the arrangements they start from, writes many of the tunes, provides every cue during the improvisational passages, and sings the vocals in the soft style of Nat (King) Cole. Sometimes he switches from accordion to piano, astonishes fellow musicians by playing contrasting figures with right and left hand simultaneously. The other three members of the quartet watch Mooney closely, and with evident admiration. (He cannot watch them: he is blind.) Their cue from Mooney is often merely a smile or change of facial expression...