Word: webbs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ella Fitzgerald is also promised. While her singing of late is-not on the same level as in the old Chick Webb days, Ella is still, for my money, worth a baker's dozen of Dinah Shores and Helen O'Connells...
Targets for Tonight. In San Francisco, police who arrested Lewis L. Webb after he had shot his hotel room full of holes got an explanation from his 60-year-old wife: somebody had insulted her, and "Lewis was just showing me what he'd do." In The Bronx, Thomas Cunningham, charged with shooting steadily through a neighbor's window at a can of corned beef, explained that the neighbor had been eying his daughter. In Chicago, Gilbert Hayashi explained to police why he had been shooting at his roommate with a bow and arrow: "I am interested...
When Davision opened last summer, the biggest single defect in the band was the lack of a trombone. There's no such lack now, with Sandy Williams, ex-Chick Webb and Coleman Hawkins. Sandy was troubled with a bad lip last Tuesday night, but that didn't prevent him from proving that he is one of the most unappreciated trombonists...
Florid, white-thatched Chesley Webb Jurney has been a Washington character for 44 years, the Senate Sergeant at Arms for ten years. Sartorially immaculate, he paddles around the upper chamber, beams amiably at all. Amiability notwithstanding, Jurney was deep in trouble last week...
...blind are finding increasing opportunities in the war effort: >Blind, 23-year-old Byron H. Webb of Chicago was graduated from De Paul University last month, wanted to fight the Axis somehow. He was told of various relatively nonessential jobs he could do. Dissatisfied, he thought hard, sold himself to the Signal Corps. His job: teaching Signal Corps men to make emergency radio repairs in the dark. >Toledo Scale Co. has a new instrument, invented by blind Evelyn Watson of Buffalo, which permits blind people to weigh by ear such things as powder for fuses, mica for radio installations, buttons...