Word: phils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...greatest jollier in this hemisphere. . . . His face is beautiful as a heavenly angel's and when he turns on his smile it would set the heart of a wooden Indian on fire-which would ruin the Indian. Look how he slipped the leading halters on to Phil Murray and Bill Green, and made them drink too. So, for him they both swore that black was white! Anyhow, he got them to agree for once. Please do print more of his faces...
...past 35 years San Francisco has had a municipal band leader but no band. When a civic celebration calls for music, Director Phil Sapiro, 63, just drops in at the musicians' union clubrooms and persuades a few pinochle players to come along. He has blue uniforms and gold-lettered caps for the recruits, but seldom time for a rehearsal...
Last week Director Sapiro was lining up bandsmen for the biggest assignment of his career: the United Nations Conference. In his cubbyhole office (behind the City Hall elevator shaft) Phil Sapiro had carefully scored the anthems of each & every United Nation. The new Russian anthem he transcribed from a piano and vocal arrangement. "But I'll check with the delegations themselves before we play a note," he said. "You know, where you really run into trouble is with those Latin American countries. They keep changing anthems every time there is a revolution -but the band will be ready...
...Past. Cavalryman Patton gallops along in a tradition of military men Americans have always cheered-Phil Sheridan, Nathan Bedford Forrest, James Elwell Brown Stuart, the men who used their cavalry as Patton uses his armor, like a saber. Patton is a modern version of Jeb Stuart's scout and raider: Confederate Colonel John Singleton Mosby...
...lieutenant governor of Washington (state) is a onetime bandleader who still delights in music. While collecting votes last year, Victor Aloysius Meyers impulsively invited a former movie-palace organist, just discharged from the Army, to come to the State Capitol some time and play for the legislature. Organist Phil Raboin eventually showed up in Olympia, was put on the state payroll as a clerk and assigned to soothe ruffled legislative nerves with a daily recital...