Word: wain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...famous names have been grabbing an armful of records and sponsors, and going to work at fortune's wheel. A few: ex-Bandleader Tommy Dorsey (450 stations) is guaranteed $300,000; ex-Sportcaster Ted Husing (Manhattan's WHN) can aim for $250,000; Andre Baruch and Bea Wain (Manhattan's WMCA...
...Soldier Born. "Skinny" Wain wright had a soldier's heritage. Great-Grandfather Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright, Episcopal bishop of New York in 1852, fought by the Word, his descendants by the sword...
Bobby Hackett, the well-known cornet-player, will be featured with Ivan Wain-wright's Blue Boys at the Jazz Club's sixth session in the Hop Scotch Room of the Copley Square Hotel Sunday afternoon, December 12, from 3 to 6 o'clock. Hackett, a native of Boston, has led the band at Nick's in New York, and once played with Glenn Miller...
...what's cooking at Oudjda." Oudjda (pronounced ooj-dah'), which is in Morocco, came in: "Greetings, gang! This is Sergeant Dick Weston, the old Musical Message Sender in Oudjda, getting ready to read those requests and deliver with the music." A pair of privates wanted a Bea Wain recording of God Bless the Child for some of their buddies "now in parts unknown." They got it. A sergeant requested Tommy Dorsey's Blue Blazes for another sergeant "who is homesick for his wife...
...long as food, ammunition and medicines held out, Corregidor and its satellites might well hold off the Jap. And now that U.S. bombers had reached up from Australia to Manila, "Skinny" Wain-wright's men could hope that light supplies, at least, might be delivered to them -especially quinine...