Word: out-of-the-way
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Bing Crosby, on the lookout for some choice Crosby records ever since he lost his collection in the fire that destroyed his home last year, was reported by Columnist Harrison Carroll to have tracked down an out-of-the-way Ohio collector with 22 of them. Purchase price (to the croon tycoon): $3 apiece...
Father spent much of his time "enlarging at least twenty separate collections, ranging from duelling pistols to out-of-the-way specimens of trout flies." Most of the Sousa living-room was given over to a truckload of balsam wood, several barrels of paint. Out of these Father planned one day to fashion his own duck decoys. On the dining-room table stood his favorite Christmas present- joint gift of the family-a bullet-loading machine. Father always slept with one to three loaded revolvers under his pillow, plus spare rounds of ammunition. His own room resembled "a merger between...
Frederick Searls Jr., 53, a top-drawer mining engineer whose work has taken him to most of the strange, out-of-the-way places which are today's battlefronts. Melancholy, laconic Engineer Searls, who deceptively resembles ineffectual Comedian Victor Moore, was recommended for a defense job by Elder Statesman Bernard M. Baruch. He began building ammunition plants for the British Purchasing Commission, switched to Army Ordnance. When he began, Searls knew nothing about ammunition except that it was supposed to explode. Now he knows so much that the Army refused to give him up to Nelson, insisted that...
Great and wonderful sounds could be heard in Boston this past week from a couple of out-of-the-way places not generally frequented by Harvard men. One, of course, was the Keith Boston, which swerved out of its second-rate vaudeville groove long enough to present Duke Ellington and his Famous Orchestra and Ethel Waters in a thoroughly enjoyable sixty-five minutes. Despite sundry sepia entertainers from the Duke's revue, "Jump for Joy," the band itself was, as always, the big news, whether showing off its soloists or weaving a subdued and subtle background to a vocal refrain...
...trees budded in New York City's December parks. In four days. 763 flights were canceled at LaGuardia Field-at the airports they said: ''Even the birds are walking." Here & there planes, unable to come down at their scheduled stops, carried their passengers to out-of-the-way fields-at South Bend, Ind., in a few hours, 15 huge planes landed, like great ungainly birds seeking shelter...