Word: spiked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When he isn't mugging in public, Red Ingle assures everyone he knows that his one ambition is to get out of the band business. He tried retiring in 1942 by going into the CAA. A year later, Spike Jones lured him away with a job ("I did the whoopees and coughs in Cocktails for Two"). In 1946, he tried retiring again. But one day some cronies dropped around to his house, and before he knew it, they had whipped up a burlesque of the mournful perennial, Temptation. Red's Tim-Tayshun sold a million records...
...fast. But when Joe's older brother Vince (who later played with National League teams) was hired as a professional ballplayer for the San Francisco Seals, Papa's objections melted. Joe was peeping through a knothole one afternoon, watching brother Vince play, when a Seals' scout, Spike Hennessey, clapped him on the back. How would he like to come inside for a tryout? Joe could think of nothing he wanted more. Five years later, little brother Dom was given his chance too, on the strength of being a DiMaggio...
...Spike Jones, whose band plays louder than almost anybody else's, took his new bride to Hawaii for twelve days. Spike's goal: "A little peace and quiet...
...next fortnight will be important mainly in convincing a very good crew that it must work to beat a very game Yale beat. That is where Red Top, with its reminders of Spike Chace and Bob Herrick and of Leverett Saltonstall's 1914 Henley winners, can play a part...
...white dresses, and white or spectator pumps with rubber heels. Hats and white gloves will be worn at the Baccalaureate services. Rubber heels are a 1948 addition to the costume, made necessary by Sanders' hardwood floors and acoustics which in other years have amplified the clatter of uncushioned spike heels...