Word: outfit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...take draftees, not because it needed them, but because so many tough young men volunteered that the other services felt cheated. The Marine Corps fixed it so that draftees could specify their choice of service; a sergeant could still snarl at a boot: "Nobody asked you to join this outfit, bub." Now the Marines had to go begging. The Marines would presumably still have the right to wash out anyone who couldn't stomach the rugged training. But the sad fact these days, said one Marine major, is that there are just "not enough glory hunters" any more...
...their event they call the competition "very rough." Entering officially for the Union Boat Club down-river from Weld Boathouse, they say the "outfit to beat" will come from the Vesper Boat Club of Philadelphia. This shell will be manned by Owen J. Tolland and William Knecht, one an Olympic and one a previous national champion...
...Communists and Communist angels alike. Seventeen second-rung Communists, who were arrested last month on charges of conspiring to teach and advocate the overthrow of the Government, also appeared before Judge Ryan for arraignment. They were released on bail-$171,000 of it supplied by Field's outfit, $5,000 from Field's own pocket. Another four had eluded arrest and disappeared. It was a good guess they were in touch with Comrade Gus Hall and friends, somewhere...
...wins the court battle, Bunin's $1,500,000 Alice will be barred from U.S. exhibition until 18 months after Disney releases his $3,000,000 Alice. To Disney's contention that Bunin's competing Alice would cause "irreparable damage" to him and RKO, the Souvaine outfit blandly replied: "Actually, it is healthy for the industry to have two entirely different conceptions of a beloved classic appearing at approximately the same time . . . We believe that the public is entitled to see either one or both. We doubt that the name 'Alice in Wonderland...
Sutton decided what a jazz piano should sound like when he first heard some Fats Waller records as a Howell, Mo. grade-school boy. Employed in the six-man dance band which his father led as a weekend hobby, twelve-year-old Ralph soon began disorganizing the outfit with Waller-style chords and riffs plus a smattering of local St. Louis ragtime. At 19, his swinging, loose-jointed beat and limber wrists got him a job as pianist with Jack Teagarden's band. In 1942 he was drafted. Since the war he has wandered in & out of Manhattan jazz...