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...records with special studio bands and only last month he appeared as features star on Esquire's coast-to-coast jazz broadcast over the Blue Network. Bunk Johnson on cornet also played in the old Eagle Band, and by 1914 hen Bechet joined him he was already an old timer, having performed with King Bolden's Band...

Author: By Charles Kallman, | Title: JAZZ, ETC. | 3/9/1945 | See Source »

...this idea, casually argued at best, the most efficient debaters are: 1) John Wayne, who is cinema's ablest proponent of rawhide masculinity; 2) neon-eyed Ella Raines, the most human and promising of the young sub-stars; 3) whiskey-whiskered, exuberant "Gabby" Hayes, the most expert old-timer in westerns, who looks rather like Walt Whitman endorsing picnic twist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Nov. 6, 1944 | 11/6/1944 | See Source »

...disturbed by "battle dreams," in which they relived grueling episodes of air combat. First therapy: the flight surgeon would encourage the sufferer to "talk" out his dreams and his experiences, and would explain that everyone taking off on a combat mission, from the seamiest veteran to the quivering first-timer, was in some degree afraid. If that did not work, he was grounded and sent to a rest home where sports, occupational therapy, indoor games, etc., were designed to take his mind off himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: The Flyer's Mind | 6/5/1944 | See Source »

...will, in the future, be restricted to the hours of 1000-1500 Sunday, which may alter the situation . . . The Class Gift Committee has added another to the will and testament list. YOU may contribute by sending your donation to The Lucky Bag, specifying which particular type 3-minute-egg-timer you recommend . . . It may be spring, but the strains of Shoo Shoo Baby coming from Bingham's Office these days continue. Between "Bing's" crooning, and the newly founded DeHaas date bureau, Chase Roomers await the Robins...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Lucky Bag | 3/3/1944 | See Source »

...mess call was sounded and upper was served, cafeteria style. After upper a real old-fashioned song-fest in the parlor of Briggs House with new and old hits was featured. At 2045 the men stroke out with that real old-timer "Good fight Ladies" and proceeded to go home...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WAVES AND NTS ENJOY PICNIC | 6/4/1943 | See Source »

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