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...tips," Duke recalls. "Every day we'd go play pool until we made $2. With $2 we'd get a pair of 75? steaks, beer for a quarter, and have a quarter left for tomorrow." He did his own housework, including mending and pressing his tailor-made suits, always impeccably kept. Periodically, there was work for his five-man combo-Arthur Whetsel on trumpet, Otto Hardwick on bass and alto, Sonny Greer on drums and Elmer Snowden on banjo-but the real break came in 1927. "You know, I'm lucky," says Duke. "I'm lucky...
Lannan's formula is to reorganize, modernize, diversify. The Milwaukee road, weakest of the so-called "transcontinental" lines (because its lightly traveled track traverses largely underpopulated areas), is tailor-made for his touch. Extending from Chicago west to Omaha and northwest to Puget Sound, it is twelfth on the list of moneymakers; its 1955 net was $9,532,282. But Lannan is betting on a Northwest boom to boom the Milwaukee...
...support of all Democrats, but I feel that this can be done only by working together in Chicago." Then, in a considerably less polite press statement, he said he had "no patience with anything that suggests a third party. The [South Carolina] resolution is nothing but Dixiecrat sugar coating . . . tailor-made for the Republicans...
...Workin' on the Railroad." For Squire Harriman, the swing through the west was educational as well as profitable. Without valet, in towns where tailor shops were locked for the night, the governor used an old technique of traveling salesmen: to ease out the wrinkles, he hung his suit in hotel bathrooms, turned on the hot water, let the room fill with wrinkle-removing steam...
...conscience or his conviction that "the artist's function is to be aware of life and conditions of the times." He still satirizes the blustering Senators and the martini-drinking set that crowds the chic exhibit halls. On the other hand, he retains compassion for the little east side tailor who emigrated to this country lie his own grandfather. Yet, both in moods of satire and compassion his color has become more strident. "I am having a ball with color," he says, and this above all seems to be his concession to the Formalistic art of our time...