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...Coventry. London, Manchester. Ow I wish I could come up with a Jerry plane. I would show them. Today my steward put my knife spoon and fork in bucket of water to wash then forgot they were there, chooked water overboard with them in it. I could of chooked im overboard...
Passed by the office of Hayes (Col. Wentworth, House steward) last night were the following items: "Imprudent Corned Beef Hash (1 flashed it myself, says the Colonel)," "Pluto Water (if helps to pass the meal away, says the Colonel...
...nature of this latest grant little indication of a change in attitude. A seaman's rating and an eventual petty officership may in themselves seem like the ultimate in advancement to the colored volunteer, who in the past has been suffered in the navy only as mess mate, steward, or cook. But on a comparative scale this move is hardly better than the closed door policy that the navy has clung to in the past through thick and thin...
...past week such Ellington notables as Ben Webster and Lawrence. Brown have been sitting in with the boys regularly--high tribute in itself. There are interesting soloists on every instrument, but at least when I was there Frankie led all the rest. Last Monday, after lending Rex Steward his trumpet for a feverish ten minutes, Frankie, who always takes the last solo on each number, improvised chorus after chorus with the full, rich tone he induces from his open horn. And Rex himself clambered halfway onto the bandstand to hear him better. As George Frazier of the Herald would...
Rawlins' mother took her son and left his father when the boy was two because Father Phillips, a dining-car steward on the Santa Fe, would not give up railroading. Father Phillips dropped dead in Kansas City last May. He had invested his earnings to good purpose. Fortnight ago his story was broadcast. Son Phillips and his wife had heard all but one of the Missing Heir programs. That evening they were-for the second time in two years-not listening. But friends told them about it. Last week they claimed their estate...