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Many of the 500 or so songs Fats wrote have been lost. Waller himself could not always remember his compositions, and he would sometimes give away the rights to a song for as little as taxi fare. The world rights to Ain't Misbehavin' went for less than...
...face that her shoes were too tight, and another time he diagnosed a horse's problem as loneliness. Solution: find another lonely horse to share the stall. Jacobs and Bieber raced their horses often, or as one critic sniffed, they ran them "like a fleet of taxi cabs...
...gain control. So he went after a slightly smaller target: American Motors. Wolfson had bought $4 million of AMC stock before Chairman George Romney talked him out of a takeover and converted him " into a messianic promoter of the Rambler. Wolfson would talk up the little car to barbers, taxi drivers, anyone he encountered, even offering to finance their auto purchases interest-free from his own pocket. "People were mailing me checks for $50 a month," Wolfson once recalled. He eventually sold out his holdings in American Motors and made a $2 million profit...
Flash! Flash! Question! Question! Question! She finally forced her way out after the police had been called, jumped into a taxi and dissolved into a flood of tears...
...Galactica, with John Dykstra, who won an Academy Award for the special effects of Star Wars, working the same magic every Sunday at 8 p.m. Vega$ will follow the adventures of a handsome young private eye "in that sizzling city of beautiful women and gambling men," says ABC, while Taxi and Apple Pie are billed as comedies about taxi drivers and zany Americans, in that order. Lest anyone get the characters confused, the shows are scheduled for different nights. The only non-Silverman entry is titled Mork & Mindy, which need only be as funny as its press release: "A being...