Word: nicking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...West 4th, where Sterling Boso and Rod Cless room together... Bozo, an old New Orleans man himself, insisted that Louie played the river with King Oliver on the Capitol before the King went to Chicago, despite the statement of many critics to the contrary ... Caught the dinner show at Nick's, where Pee Wee comes out at night and Miff Mole looks at his watch every five minutes to make sure that he doesn't play overtime ... Then to Cafe downtown for a word with Josh White ... Benny Morton's band just moved in with some tasty clarinet by Prince...
...Warsaw, as in Paris, the underground had risen prematurely. But in Paris the U.S. and French forces had arrived in the nick of time to save the patriots. In Warsaw, no rescue had come to the underground forces of General Bors, which for a month had stood off the German Army. RAF flyers in Italy had made the 1,750-mile round trip to drop supplies and a few weapons (TIME, Aug. 28). So far the Russians, some ten miles away, had dropped nothing...
Born. To Martha Raye, 27, bumptious, big-mouthed Hollywood comedienne, and her fourth husband, Dancer Nick Condos, 36: their (and her) first child, a daughter; in Hollywood. Name Melodye. Weight...
Along with good liquor and beautiful women, fair Boston is sadly lacking a supply of hot music. Nevertheless, if you haven't heard, the boys at Nick's kick the gong around or cried in your beer listening to Billie for a long, long time, and are on the verge of either turning square or going over the hill to New York, you will be able to get some amount of kicks out of one or two of the local jump bands. The best of a poor lot of these bands is probably Sabby Lewis, who once in a while...
Last week it was calculated that Faust had topped the combined output of E. Phillips Oppenheim, J. S. Fletcher, Edgar Wallace and all those who wrote as Nick Carter. More Faustiana remained: the Saturday Evening Post will shortly begin his romantic serial, After April; scheduled for the August Argosy is a short story, By Their Works. Friends said that Faust was in the middle of a Civil War novel when he sailed to Italy...