Word: playe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Embassy's tree-lined driveway past two sentry boxes at which two starched G.I.s come to attention; in the street the car is picked up by an escort of white MP jeeps. On the five-minute ride to work, MacArthur passes a sandlot where Japanese kids play baseball, a number of government buildings (some destroyed), the Sakurada Gate of the Imperial Palace, the green algae-covered Imperial moat. 'For the general, the traffic lights are always green...
...almost broke. For a while, he worked in a Los Angeles gas station. In his spare time he took over (without pay) the baton of a nameless group of Hollywood movie musicians who were so bored with stop & go script music that they banded together to play, once a week, some piece of music all the way through...
Rachmilovich has used the same principle in building the reputation of his play-for-fun Santa Monica Symphony. When he finally got some of his money out of Europe (a friend sent it to him in Swiss watches, which sold easily in the war-short U.S.), he put it into making records ("something people would want-and would have to take ours or go without...
...live by." To keep the rhythm, Jimmy still drops around to four or five Hollywood hotspots every night, waving cheery greetings to movie stars and bartenders. When bandleaders see him coming, they strike up his latest tunes. Jimmy, his own best pressagent, may sit down at the piano and play a few himself...
...midtown Philadelphia. Girard is not really a college at all, but the richest boarding school in the world (its endowment: $90 million). Harry Truman inspected everything, put away an enormous roast beef luncheon, accepted a pupil-fashioned bronze statuette of the Founder, listened to a 16-year-old pianist play Chopin, planted a pair of sapling twinoaks...