Word: tic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Angel. In his middle 40s, João Alberto is tallish, slender. A nervous tic periodically distorts his face. His kindly, scholarly bearing does not match his violent past or his present push. Brazilians tell some cynical tales about his appetite for money, and they remember his successful but intensely unpopular term as Federal Interventor in the rebellious State of São Paulo. He plays the piano beautifully, has almost memorized his favorite book, The Arabian Nights. He speaks English, is pro-American, has a son in the U.S. Air Forces. Among his pals: Sumner Welles and Carmen Miranda...
...your are ready for bed. Fall asleep. Dream of a Saturday Quiz. Take up your pencil. That's right. Now with deft, steady strokes, play tic, tac, toe on all the odd questions and tiddley winks on all the even ones. Who knows, you might even get the right answer, and besides, won't Dr. Tatum be surprised...
Louis Armstrong is at the Tic Toc, opposite the Met, until-Saturday, but we'd advise listening to his nightly programs on WHDH first. Lionel Hampton opens Sunday, but again the radio is definitely handier and cheaper...
Proceeding to other matters, Frankie Newton was to return to the Ken, but was prevented by union trouble. Lionel Hampton is opening for a month's engagement at the Tic Toc February 28. Thus with Ellington at the RKO Boston for a week then, and with Davision at the Ken, Boston's in for a fine load of jazz...
...retreat of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's German and Italian troops in North Africa, but tried to explain that in fluid desert warfare the Rommel tactic was to lead the British on. A popular quip became: "A clock moves forward saying tictac; Rommel moves backward saying tac-tic...