Word: townsmen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...case, the man, the hour, the music and the geography have met. Here you have this Long Island, N.Y., dentist who retires with his wife Thelma to Florida and becomes, in his words, "light-headed, lackadaisical." So he puts together a band, a big band -- Stan Spiro and the Townsmen Orchestra, featuring music in the Glenn Miller mood -- and all of a sudden retirement is a dream, just one long Moonlight Serenade...
...world. He rehearsed his band for ages before he took it public. And when he finally did, it blew the public's hat in the creek, which is to say the band cooked, dig? It was tight. And it is not a stretch to say Stan Spiro and the Townsmen Orchestra came on like a train, to liken them to the Chattanooga Choo Choo...
...case officers had to publish, so you'd recruit one of the townsmen to go out and pretend to get the news you wanted to print," he said, adding that when the U.S. effort reached its nadir, officers were ordered to stop reporting on the corruption of the South Vietnamese army...
...Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. A good doctor stumbles onto a magical chemical that transforms him into an even better Mr. Hyde, in which guise he organizes fellow townsmen into a bandage-rolling society...
...starving. Jimmy Carter will be the youngest man since Calvin Coolidge to return from the White House; and surely neither he nor his equally impelled wife can predict their own movements or calculate their effects. They have not really lived in Plains for ten years. But though the townsmen are curious, they're not postponing normal life-not even his kin, who though still cautious, seem 50 Ibs. lighter in the duty department and more candid than ever (but off the record...