Word: wee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...frets that he must register as a "British subject." He lives alone in a small cottage among Upper Woodstock's towering elms. He puts down his own pickles, launders his own shirts. He likes to speed parting guests with an ancient Malecite blessing: "May the horns of Wiwilamehkw (wee-willa-menka) protect you and your goods...
...hotrock clarinetist and a pretty damn fine guy. A siege of infantile paralysis several years ago nearly put Charlie out for the count, but after eight months in an iron lung he picked up fast and now plays clarinet as tirelessly as ever from a wheelchair. Pee Wee Russell and Frank Teschemacher represent his school of hot clarinet, and Charlie is an apt pupil. His record collection is one of the best in New England, and Charlie's home has for years been a regular stop for visiting jazz musicians, many of whom have cut discs in the Vinal living...
Married. Evelyn Nelson, baby-voiced songstress "Wee Bonnie Baker" (Oh, Johnny, Oh, Johnny, Oh!); and First Lieut. John Morse, of the Army's Signal Corps; she for the second time, he for the first; in Manhattan...
Small Four. George Burns had an early training in antics. Born Nat Birnbaum into a family of twelve children on Manhattan's crowded Pitt Street, he began his theatrical career of necessity at the age of seven, after his father died. George organized the Pee-Wee Quartet, featuring himself and a six-year-old basso. The four took turns passing the hat in saloons and backyards...
...couldn't call Pee Wee absent minded, but he's the only man I know who consistently pays a nickel to get out of the Broadway & Seventh Avenue Subway...