Word: sagas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most famous scat skit is Melody in 4-F, the gaga saga of a G.I. which made the musicomedy Let's Face It famous. In this, while triple-tonguing his "de-geet gat giddle," Kaye mimicked an inductee pleading for deferment because of bad ears, flat feet, ulcers, decayed teeth; took him into training with a few key words like "Shad-ap!" (indicating a tough top sergeant) or "hut, tut, t'ree, fo" (for long marches). But mostly it was all "riddle-de biddle, de reep...
...role as Hearst's "Cholly Knickerbocker," pompadoured Society Gossip Igor Loiewski-Cassini (TIME, Nov. 5) last week started a series of profiles on New York social registerites. To prepare himself, he boned up on the Astor clan by reading Dixon Wecter's scholarly Saga of American Society. When it came time to share his new-found knowledge with his readers, Gossip Cassini found himself full of his reading. Samples...
...aren't particularly interested in Mr. Orton's [book], but we ARE interested in your anonymous book critic's wonderful and incomplete saga of Angela and Carrie Chapman Katz. . . . We long to know more about Angela and her daughter . . . their lives previous to the universal demolition, a chronicle we hope will be salted with plenty of the gifted ladies' ideas and conversation. It isn't fair to give us just this tasty hors d'oeuvre. More! More...
Weevils & Bulls. The Lomaxes followed The Boll Weevil Song ("Boll Weevil done et my cotton, done started in on my corn") from Texas to the Atlantic, recording a different version of the little bug at each stop. They went to Tennessee for the sad saga of Coal Creek mine disasters ("No more pay days at Coal Creek...
...saga of the Hump was ending. This week, after three years of peril-strewn operation over the Himalayas into China, the most hazardous air route in the world practically went out of business...