Word: wagoneer
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...dangers of not driving carefully are dramatically demonstrated to the student salesman by a little red toy wagon driven by a male doll which carelessly smashes the wagon against a stone (the instruction book thoroughly lists, among the required props, "one stone about half the size of your fist"). The point: "Because he didn't take proper care of his little red wagon, Juan was out of business" (PAUSE BRIEFLY AND LOOK AT MEN SO AS TO ALLOW POINT TO SINK...
...until he was 15 did Birdsall Sweet finally lose his fear of being away from the respirator. He learned to eat outside it. His wheel chair was put in a station wagon which carried him around the Dutchess County countryside. But then he began suffering from hay fever and eczema, and kidney trouble began to appear. At 16 he had pneumonia...
...feel for detail and character is excellent. He creates a traveling pitchman who runs out of water in the desert, and is found dead drunk after two days of guzzling Magic Elixir to alleviate his thirst. There is a Charles Addams-type family of half-witted bandits, and a wagon train of Mormon emigrants inspired by frequent bleats on a ram's horn. But Ford fails to weld these details together with much of a plot, and relies on the second rate songs of his cowboy chorus to fill in the gaps. When Mr. Ford, like the little girl...
...wagon began to roll last fall when Jimmy Dorsey played hooky from his big dance band long enough to record Johnson Rag and a Dixieland version of Charley My Boy with an easygoing eight-piece group called the Original "Dorseyland" Jazz Band. The relaxed, free-wheeling music caught the public's ear, and the Dorseylanders quickly followed with an album including such old standards as Jazz Me Blues, South Rampart Street Parade, and High Society. The album soon hit Variety's list of the top-five bestsellers, has stayed there for six weeks...
...jump stuff," was back on board. Last week he and his Bobcats were together again to record Dixieland versions of Sousa's The Stars and Stripes Forever and Washington Post, which would have sounded almost natural coming over the tail gate of an oldtime New Orleans jazz wagon. "People are tired of love songs and weepy ballads," said Bob. "They want happy music...