Word: roamings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sight-seeing spots the bridegroom had never visited: Niagara Falls, Land of Newlyweds. Now 39, father of two, FitzPatrick has a small "self-sustaining" island near Victoria, B.C., and a consuming desire to make feature pictures. War or no war, he no longer cares to roam, says plaintively: "Now I get homesick...
...this activity would be an economic stimulant, suspect the group of Communist or Nazi leanings, their feelings were countered by Nathan Dodge, chairman of the local group backing the plan, who jokingly suggested that it would be better to have the boys together in one camp than free to roam as they would
Were Henry Dunster's spirit to roam the property of the University Monday, he would find the grounds and buildings slightly changed from the one, half-completed class room shack with "no floor laid in and, above the hall, no wall separating the studies...
When Jack Kapp was recording master for Brunswick, he used to roam the South looking for new hillbilly quartets, jug bands, spiritual singers, colored jazz outfits and blues shouters to add to Brunswick's list. Jack Kapp not only has big, useful ears, but kind eyes and a soft heart. When he returned to Chicago with his recordings, so depressed would he feel about the underprivileged folk among whom he traveled that it would take two or three nights listening to the Civic Opera before he felt right again. For Mr. Kapp understood Beethoven as well as 3-woogie...
Born 52 years ago in Nova Scotia, Jim Williams was taken as a baby to Detroit, where he grew up, spent one year half-heartedly studying art at Mount Union College. At 15, big and husky as a man, he quit school to roam the Southwest as ranch hand, camp cook, mule skinner, tattoo artist. He was a crack rider with the 15th Cavalry at Fort Sill, Okla. Mustered out, he married, smashed baggage at Chicago's old Northwestern railroad station, got a broken nose as a professional prize fighter, finally settled down as a machinist's assistant...