Word: quits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eldest of nine children of poor Italian immigrants, John Deferrari was forced to quit school to help support his family. In Boston, whose North End slums were all that he knew, young John took up father Giovanni's career. A fruit basket on his arm, he started peddling apples and oranges in the State Street financial district...
...undisciplined, often nasally unmusical and handicapped by careless phrasing. But at her unpredictable best, Chippie handled the blues with the loving and instinctive expertness of her collectors' item records of the middle '20s, when she worked with Louis Armstrong, King Oliver, and Earl ("Father") Hines. She had quit singing in 1930 to bring up her four kids (later there were three more). When Jazz Pedant Rudi Blesh found her three months ago she was scraping trays in a Chicago cafeteria...
Cloudy Session. Before he left Washington, the President had had a cool-to-cloudy session with hypertensive Democratic Party Chairman Bob Hannegan, accepted Hannegan's decision to quit the chairmanship with few regrets. With quiet irritation, the President dropped his speech coach, J. Leonard Reinsch, from the Rio passenger list. For weeks, columnists had spread a false rumor that Reinsch would be appointed FCC chairman to succeed Chairman Charles R. Denny. The President suspected Reinsch of what he considers a cardinal sin: starting the rumor himself. Washington heard that Harry Truman had acidly been asking his close associates...
...Goodman and wife Jane decided to watch the ponies and take life easy for awhile. But within six months, Goodie was back in radio, earning just about the top dollar for a writer ($3,000 weekly) as Danny Kaye's chief scripter. When Kaye left for Hollywood, Ace quit again...
Shaggy Dog. But last week, word leaked out that Hosford was just about out of the market. He had quit speculating in Government bonds because the high capital-gains tax made it scarcely worth while. TIME'S Cleveland correspondent, who called at Hosford's big stone suburban home, found him in shorts by his swimming pool, sipping a tall drink which he hated to see either full or empty, and talking to a shaggy English sheep dog as if he half expected the dog to answer. To his visitor, Hosford related some of the facts of his fabulous...