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...Naval Academy I was the member of a menagerie which an upperclassman collected from among the lowly plebes for the purpose of mild hazing. My place of honor was, as the "Dodo" bird, no uncertain one. I recall that I condescended to associate, at intervals, with the "Wahoo Wahoo" bird and several other fowl of lesser degree. This lasted about one month - since that time I have not been honored with this title except by one classmate - now dead - and yourself. In fact I have no nickname, possibly "Cy" or Johnny or Jack. You have my permission to discontinue...
...Wahoo Wahoo's Associate...
...last minute, had to send out for extra cots for its 600 female patrons. Popeyed, Omaha's citizenry gaped at the husky visitors, most of them over 30, who resolutely dropped the Mrs. from their names, gulped vast quantities of beer, sang their own bowling songs, whooped the Wahoo song in honor of nearby Wahoo, Neb. But what surprised Omaha most was to find that, aside from stenographers and salesgirls who sent ball after ball into the gutters, certain women could bowl as well as certain...
...persons outside the cinema industry, Zanuck is a new name. Within the industry he is celebrated. William R. Wilkerson's Hollywood Reporter, Talmud of the cinema industry, lavishly called him last week "the greatest piece of motion picture property living today. . . ." Born at Wahoo, Neb. of U. S.-Swiss parentage, he ran away from home at 15, enlisted in the Army, chased Pancho Villa in Mexico, went to Los Angeles penniless after the 1918 Armistice. He worked in a box factory, in a shipyard, in the Baker Iron Works, wrote advertising cards for drug store windows, tried being...
...seven years that he has conducted the New York Philharmonic-Symphony, Toscanini has presented music by only four U. S. composers.* But Composer Hanson's name was made long before Tosanini honored him. At 20, a greenhorn from Wahoo, Neb., he was made a full-fledged professor at the College of the Pacific in Stockton, Calif. From there he went to Rome on an American Academy fellowship, grew his spindling little beard when he was invited to conduct the famed Augusteo Orchestra...