Word: train
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...picked up some new dises ... Best of these were "Clarinet Marmalade" with Bill Davison, Ed Hall, and Brunies; "Squeeze Me" by Yank Lawson, Miff Mole, and Cless; and the same tune recorded by Cliff Jackson, and Pee Wee ... For lovers of boogie there is a new "Streamlino Train" by Cripple Clarence Lofton on Session label ... Next to Condon's Town Hall broadcast featuring excellent Butterfield, Kaminsky, Mole, and Muggsy along with poor Krupa and indifferent Haggart ... Saw Haggart in the bar next door afterwards and he admitted that his work in the C.B.S. house band is financially remunerative but artistically...
...Carpet. On the Dewey train, no oldster among the 63 newsmen (a record number) could recall any other campaign so deliberately pitched in low key. At Manhattan's Pennsylvania Station the only concession to ceremony was a small and ancient green carpet on the platform. Not more than 25 onlookers, mostly idle switchmen, watched Tom Dewey and his wife clamber aboard the rear platform...
...Dewey train headed north to his native state of Michigan. At his birthplace, he got his biggest ovation so far. Owosso, Mich. (pop. 17,000) drew some 25,000 from Shiawassee County down to Main Street for a Saturday night look at the home-town boy who had made good.*Tom Dewey made a brief, extemporaneous address, then retired to his mother's plain, white-painted home for a Sunday of rest and meditation...
...Said the Admiralty: "Too old." Eventually he was given an assignment deemed suitable for a superannuated sailor-as liaison officer to the Mediterranean commander Admiral Sir Andrew Browne Cunningham. Sir Walter, still alarmed by the risk of dying in bed, got Cunningham to assign him to the Commandos, to train Commando-men in handling small boats...
...lemonade and watch the retreat-tattered, dusty men, walking, piled on horse-drawn carts, or riding bicycles which were sometimes without tires. Madly the Germans tried to exchange rum, margarine and other rations for civilian clothes. Fascist Rexists had waited three days at the railway station for a train that never came, then slunk off to hide as best they could. Said a German officer: "We do not like traitors; we merely use them...