Word: swingful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...touch schedule starts tomorrow, but the other teams will not be ready to swing into action until a week from this Thursday. More conditioning work for tackle players is necessary to got them in shape for the rough and tumble tactics that most of them haven't indulged in since last fall...
Murray's business is up 50% to 100% (most in defense cities), has actually risen 300%...in Los Angeles. There 600 pupils pay $11,000 each month to learn the rumba, smooth swing, jitterbugging or "New Yorker" (West Coast name for the Lindy...
...flying red horse (Mobilgas), fireman's hat (Texaco), sea shell (Shell Petroleum) and other symbols of pre-war preferences in gasolines may still swing in the wind, but the pumps under the signs are soon likely to squirt only one kind and color. Last week WPB empowered the Petroleum Coordinator to pool gasoline distribution, which will probably mean mixed brands and minimum standards, with only the "regular" grade available. Even this will not be so regular as before: octane ratings were cut to around 74 last February; henceforth, according to one industry guess, they will run about...
...Swing fans milled around the Boston Theater's stage door, clamoring for autographs and drying the tears in their eyes. Glenn Miller had played one of his last vaudeville stands for the duration; within the fortnight he will be gobbled up by the Army. But fans, though tearstained, were fickle. Already they had picked a new favorite: the six-foot-one, wavy-haired son of a circus bandleader and circus bareback rider, Trumpeter Harry James. Already the "modern Gabriel" and his band had pied-piped away the followers of many hotter orchestras. When he blew his sweet, shrill horn...
...first, Bandleader James began tasting success only when he laid away his ambitions as a "hot" man, and developed a simple sweet style that features the clear, cool James trumpet against a mass of soft strings (he added five strings to his band to give it the un-swing-like total of eight). Imperturbably, James alternated blues and boogie-woogie with Viennese waltzes and technical specialties out of his own trumpet. But it was his revival of Al Jolson's 1914 hit, You Made Me Love You (I didn't want to do it, I didn...