Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sunday-magazine cover, the Chicago Tribune headlined: I WAS A DOPE ADDICT. It was the first of five chapters telling the sad story of pretty Peggy Ellsworth, 1947's "Miss Michigan," as told to Norma Lee Browning. Trib readers were accustomed to sad stories being told to Reporter Browning. As the Trib's star sob sister, she had masqueraded as a wayward girl, stranded in the city with no money (to measure the size of Chicago's heart), and submitted to phony medical treatment to expose quacks. In Cuba, she scored a beat by swiping the victim...
English visitors to both Chicago and Loch Ness are invariably asked on their return home, "Did you see it?" Almost always they have to reply, "Well, no, not really." Many of us here have come to believe that both monsters are mythical. This is sad because we are rather proud of both of them. Now, once more, we can happily discuss whether it really has nine humps, and whether he really has a near-English accent...
...then Roberta called from the Dixie Hotel. Soon she and Eckhart found themselves under arrest. Where, cried the law, was the money? A fella with long eyelashes, Roberta informed them, had gone to get it. Before the police could set out on his trail, Cousson showed up with a sad story...
...little, once it has changed, changes back: the world knew us: we would never be warm again: I let go, saw winter coming toward a cold tree, cried, cried, came apart like a rain-rotted rag." The impression after the last word is not pessimistic, however. It is a sad wisdom, a beautifully told truth...
...wise, kindly, rather sad face and a completely relaxed presence make Bechet a pleasure to watch as well. Born in New Orleans, he migrated to Chicago with his contemporaries in the Twenties. But commercial success did not come to him as it did to the "orthodox" of the Joe Oliver camp. Perhaps his fondness for France cost him his share in the proceeds from the enthusiastic public acceptance of jazz. Whatever the reasons, it is still Armstrong who gets thousands for appearances at the vast showplaces and theatres, while Bechet plays at the far smaller Storyville, in the Hotel Buckminster...