Word: rags
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...catalogue paper was handmade in England; fine old castoff linen shirts from Italy provided its basic rag stock. The ink, pure lampblack carbon and linseed oil unadulterated by modern aniline dyes, was specially ground in Germany in 1928. A new type font was designed by Jan van Krimpen, cast in The Netherlands. Two three-ton hand presses were shipped from England to Pittsburgh for the actual printing...
...wagon began to roll last fall when Jimmy Dorsey played hooky from his big dance band long enough to record Johnson Rag and a Dixieland version of Charley My Boy with an easygoing eight-piece group called the Original "Dorseyland" Jazz Band. The relaxed, free-wheeling music caught the public's ear, and the Dorseylanders quickly followed with an album including such old standards as Jazz Me Blues, South Rampart Street Parade, and High Society. The album soon hit Variety's list of the top-five bestsellers, has stayed there for six weeks...
...bandleaders decided to take a ride too. Phil Harris cut in with Muskrat Ramble and Walk with a Wiggle, planned also to make his next album with a New Orleans beat. Tommy Dorsey hastily reassembled his old Clambake Seven to record Way Down Yonder in New Orleans and Tiger Rag. Gene Krupa parked his successful 16-piece band, picked up a six-man crew in & around Greenwich Village and recorded his first oldtime jazz in more than ten years. Exchanging his tux for shirt sleeves and slacks, Drummer Krupa, who had his first taste of jazz from Louis Armstrong...
...story featuring large amounts of Irish whiskey and Irish blood won $5 for a rag-clad "merchant seaman." The donors were two soft-hearted Wigglesworthy residents, Frank Ensign '52 and Richard Craven '52, who admitted to Yard cops yesterday that they were completely taken in by the confidence man's tale...
...forced young John Henry to get down beside the dying man. Then one cut a money belt with $300 from the old man's bleeding body and warned the boy not to move. Some time after the men left, John Henry got a rag and some water to wash the blood from Uncle Mike's wounds. It didn't do any good, he remembered: "After a while I called to Uncle Mike but Uncle Mike didn't answer." But it was not until next morning that he dared to go for the sheriff...