Word: roof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brooklyn, mop-haired, zoot-suited Barry Jacobs had every opportunity to get sharpened up. His father, a bail bondsman, not only made a lucrative career out of springing prostitutes for onetime Crime King "Lucky" Luciano, but turned state's evidence when the roof fell in and got off without a bruise. Barry, however, was both stupid and unlucky. He had hardly started a career as a holdup man at the age of 16 before he was nabbed by the cops. At 18 he found himself doing time in a reformatory. Last week, out on parole and 20, he swaggered...
...nearby porch and fell dead. He shot a hole through McCullaugh's right ear. He fired fruitlessly at the women. Green ran. Jacobs leaped out, dropped the gun and sprinted wildly down the street. The police found him only half an hour later, hiding on a nearby roof. He confessed, ratted on his pal Green and cried dramatically: "If you've got me, give it to me. I don't care if I burn anyhow." The cops, who had listened to Hopkins' sobbing wife and brokenhearted mother, set out to do their best to accommodate...
...first four Sauter-Finegan recordings have an enlarged percussion section (xylophone, bells, kettledrums, etc.). But each side has a definite mood of its own: Rain sizzles like a summer shower on a slate roof; Azure-Te hits a melancholy note with a low, liquid flute sound (played on a recorder); Stop! Sit Down! Relax...
...Sounds from Sweden, Vol. I (Leonard Feather's Swingin' Swedes; Prestige LP). Some remarkably up-to-date jazz imported from Scandinavia by Jazz Expert Feather. Rain on the Roof and Moonlight Saving Time are rather stiff, but Swedish Butterfly and September Serenade are stylish bits of rhythm...
Ceiling Zero. In Pittsfield, Me., when his small plane went into a spin, Pilot Albert F. Mace, 37, plunged through the roof of his house and into the attic, stepped out of the wreckage slightly bruised...