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With the Hi-Hat offering swing groups only occasionally, Everctt's Parkway Club closed, and the Tic-Toc temporarily defunct, Katherine Donahue's Savoy looks to be the last "home of jazz" around stolid Boston. But William L. "Wild Bill" Davison is currently blowing his lungs out at the Savoy, and everyone--especially Miss Donahue--is happy...
This year, the Democrats hope to gain a clear majority in both houses of the Legislature (there is now a 20-20 tic in the State Senate) and re-gerrymander the districts to their own advantage...
...indicted the sheriff, charging him, on one count, with attempting to rape a 15-year-old girl who had worked as a domes tic for one of his friends, and on a second count, with seducing another teenager. As the result of a judicial hearing, Happy Apodaca was thrown out of office. The jury raided gambling joints on its own, confiscated slot machines and piles of gambling paraphernalia, scared every gambler in the state into shutting up shop...
...TIC DOULOUREUX, "one of the most painful conditions, to which the flesh is heir," can be relieved by alcohol injections...
...kick, and occasionally the Rio, featuring at present Andy Kirk and his atomic guitarist, Floyd Smith, are rocking to any other beat than three quarter time. Gone are the days when the respective hearts of the Boston Jazz Society, the Copley Terrace, the Ken, Maxie's, and the Tic-Toc were young and gay. O tempore, O mores! Some of us can be found of a gloomy week day eve crying in our beer at the Show Time where at least they sing a fairly complete, uninhibited version...