Word: overnights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...common-or-garden Pullman, still standard equipment for overnight travel, the seasoned traveler knows that he will go to bed when the porter chooses to make up his berth-no sooner and not much later. He masters the special technique required for undressing in a Pullman berth: a brand of gymnastics which would do credit to a graduate student of yoga. He knows that the car's oddities of ventilation make it the only place outside the malarial zones where a man can get a chill and a sweat at the same time. The experienced take these rituals...
...ostentatiously rode through cities and towns with his Negro secretary in the seat beside him. He chose the homes of Negro supporters for meals and overnight stops. In Little Rock, his supporters picked four places for him to speak, knowing that he might be refused permission at all four (he was), knowing also that there were at least a dozen places where he could have spoken without raising any objection...
Last week, 90 days later, Kaleidoscope's voluptuous maiden issue (372 high-styled pages plus a sensuous blue-green cover) appeared. Overnight the monthly became the talk of the trade. Aimed at fashion executives instead of their customers, it was a "multiple magazine" with 15 departments (for cosmetics, coats, lingerie, etc.), each with its own editorial and advertising sections...
...starting. On opening night, the thin, bashful kid from Providence found himself giving the downbeat to such hot-jazz bigwigs as Trombonist Georg Brunis, Clarinetist Pee Wee Russell, Guitarist Eddie Condon and powerhouse Negro Drummer Zutty Singleton. In the cult-ridden, vociferous world of hot jazz, Hackett became an overnight sensation. Erudite Manhattan jazzophiles went learnedly ga-ga over Hackett's musical kinship to the late great Bix Beiderbecke. Author Dorothy (Young Man With a Horn) Baker came night after night to listen and finally, to Hackett's considerable embarrassment, to write a moony, swoony tribute...
...Corp. reported that monthly payments "now run almost as high as two weeks' pay for the average factory worker." Gene Pratt, vice president of Detroit's Contract Purchase Corp., figured that 70% of potential new-car customers had been "absolutely" frozen out, thought the market could crack overnight...