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...jamboree. With the other two sailors picking off girls en route, On the Town sings and dances, joshes and handsprings its way from Central Park to the Museum of Natural History, from Carnegie Hall to Times Square, from a flock of night spots to Coney Island. Wherever it goes, uptown or down, it shoves dullness off the curbstone...
...anxious hours ticked away: lunch, just the Deweys together, in their five-bedroom suite at the Hotel Roosevelt; in the afternoon, a "thank you" meeting for 250 party leaders; dinner in an uptown apartment with six close friends. As the election returns began to pour into Republican National Headquarters at the Hotel Roosevelt, the crowds downstairs in the big ballroom were confident-many wore evening clothes, ready to go out and celebrate. But on the tenth floor, the Dewey party, isolated from press and public, listened tensely. The first tidings seemed "encouraging," but by 11:30 p.m. the news looked...
...Uptown local to 52nd Street, where Billy Holiday and Red Norvo are featured at the Downbeat, the Onyx has Lips Page and Stuff Smith, and the Eddie Heyward band alternates with Slam Stewart and Johnny Guarnieni at the Three Deuces, and of course Art Hodes with Mezzrow and Danny "Sister Kate" Alvin at Jimmy Ryan's ... Art says the Jazz Record is new in the black and continues to be the best magazine in the field ... We agree ... Ran into George Lugg and Vic Dickerson who is still with Eddie Heyward...
...Friday they combined the stuff they had left, opened up for business and said they were going to stay open until they sold it. They are selling their sandwiches, pop and coffee at the reduced rate of a nickel. . . . We ought all to give the kids a break, come uptown and help them out of the hole...
...behind this bill? Who is the chief sponsor of it? The chief publicist is PM, the uptown edition of the Communist Daily Worker that is being financed by the tax-escaping fortune of Marshall Field III, and the chief broadcaster for it is Walter Winchell-alias no telling what...