Word: ramey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...perpetrators of the latest threat to the nation's sanity are two Hollywood radio musicians-Pianist George Tibbies and Guitarist Ramey Idriss. Starting with the laugh-to the tune of the trumpet call used to round up musicians at rehearsals-they batted out both tune and lyrics in half an hour. They sang it over the phone to Producer Walter Lantz, whose animated cartoon hero Woody Woodpecker also uses the laugh, then whooshed it off to a publisher. Kay Kyser got it on wax just before James Caesar Petrillo's New Year's Eve recording ban. Tibbies...
Foils: Garr (B) defeated Sheldon (H), 5-1; and Franknann (H), 5-1. Ramey (H) defeated Peckham (B), 5-2, Garr (B), 5-4, and Prescott (B), 5-0. Sheldon (H) defeated Prescott (B), 5-0, and Pecknann...
...problem as old as legislatures, But Homer A. Ramey, a Republican from Toledo, put it poignantly to his fellow Congressmen in the House one quiet afternoon last week...
...last night of this unique academic process Miss America of 1945 was crowned by Miss America of 1944, a typist named Venus Ramey, who seemed more the physical than the intellectual type. It was obvious that the winner had deserved her victory. She had been cool and ladylike throughout and had played Grieg's Piano Concerto in A Minor without a bobble. She also looked good in a bathing suit...
...Just before midnight on Friday, Aug. 10, 350 pilots and crewmen of Brigadier General Roger Ramey's 58th Bombardment Wing gathered in the briefing room on Tinian. A group newly named Kagu-tsuchi (for a Japanese fire god) was scheduled to make a strike; for many of the B-29 crews, it would be their 35th mission-all they needed to complete a tour and get a U.S. leave...