Word: shiners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Genealogy counts for little on Broadway, but nobody in show business can point to humbler origins than George Alviel White. He says he has been on his own since he was 5. Successively a stable boy, jockey, shoe-shiner, military mascot, newsboy, bellhop, he was delivering telegrams for Postal when some extempore dance steps in a Bowery saloon earned him $12. At that point he quit the telegraph company's employ but retained its uniform, dancing in it for throw money in saloons. On one occasion Clarence Mackay's future son-in-law, a waiter named Israel Baline...
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