Word: wayes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...called Omar's Dome, a Negro pianist mused over his keyboard. A phrase had strayed into his mind, and he was trying to fit a melody to it. Suddenly, "it came to me just as straight as could be." Pianist Harvey O. Brooks hummed his tune all the way home, wrote it out in 20 minutes. Then he put it away in a drawer...
...surefire way of getting publicity is to present some sort of award to an authentic celebrity. This tried & true device has been put to good use since 1939 by the Rev. Guy Emery Shipler, who edits and pressagents Manhattan's fortnightly, unofficial Episcopal magazine, The Churchman. The annual "Churchman Award" dinners have honored such eminent folk as Franklin Roosevelt, Bernard Baruch, General Eisenhower and Mme. Chiang Kaishek. Last year Editor Shipler got extra big publicity, but the wrong kind, when Secretary of State Marshall decided that he would rather not accept The Churchman's award. Last week, with...
Then there was the Bermuda-bound airline pilot who emptied his father's ashes in flight. "That's what Dad wanted," the News said he said. "He wanted me to fly him to Bermuda, but I never got the chance. This was the only way . . ." And for a more solid tug at the heartstrings, there was a Harlem mother in tearful collapse after her daughter, little Carmelita Rodriguez, and her playmate had been killed by a coal truck in a "safe" play street...
Back in the barn, the help call Calumet Farm's Coaltown "the Goose"; he has a way of outstretching his long, thin neck when he runs. On St. Valentine's Day at Hialeah Park last week, the Goose flew as he had never flown before. Flashing by the seven-furlong marker in 1:21 1/5 (world-record time), Coaltown was ten lengths in front and still pulling away. At the mile, stop watches caught him in 1:34 1/5 (a shade faster than Equipoise's world record set at Arlington Park...
...California's Santa Anita, in a ground fog that hid the field from sight part way down the back stretch, Kentucky-owned Old Rockport came from behind to win the $100,000 Santa Anita Derby. The most exciting thing about Old Rockport's victory: his mutuel price...