Word: storke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unemployed New Yorkers and a citywide dimout which has made Broadway the Great Dark Way. On the East Side zebra-striped El Morocco is open this summer for the first time in its ten-year history, and officers' caps are stacked six deep in the checkroom. At the Stork Club a hip-provoking rumba band helps lure 40% more business than last year. Nightclub-pocked 52nd Street jumps and jives until 4 almost every morning; famed Leon & Eddie's packs them in with come-ons like pretty chorines to dance with tired businessmen. The Hotel Astor roof...
...seventh birthday morning last week, Iraq's dark-skinned child King Feisal was told to listen hard to the radio. What he heard sent him tearing to the roof of his Bagdad Palace. There, in a stork's nest on a chimney, he found what the radio message from London had told him about -a model Hurricane fighter, exact down to rubber tires and glass navigation and landing lights, built for His Majesty by R.A.F. mechanics. On the fuselage was a brass plate bearing birthday greetings. On the engine cowling His Majesty's name was inscribed...
Culver, a radio expert who was an Army Signal Corps major in World War I; Botanist Harvey E. Stork, an aerial photographer in that war; Dean Lindsey Blayney, a colonel on General Pershing's staff...
Favorite for election as official No. 1 Manhattan Deb this year in the Stork Club's coming nonsense was Oona O'Neill, daughter of brooding anchorite Dramatist Eugene O'Neill...
...Wallace for the best scoring of a musical picture in Walt Disney's Dumbo. Churchill had failed to equal his earlier Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? and Heigh Ho, but had turned out three pleasant tunes-Baby Mine, Casey Junior, Look Out for Mister Stork. Wallace's best number was When I See an Elephant...