Word: wee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Comes Jazz (Columbia) includes such favorites as Shim Me Sha Wabble, That Da-Da Strain and At the Jazz Band Ball, torn off with good Dixieland sound by such alumni of Chicago's North Side as Bud Freeman, Eddie Condon, Jack Teagarden and Pee Wee Russell...
...seaman off the S.S. Flamingo" who had gotten drunk on pay day and had been robbed of all he had in the world. His spiel ended with an appeal to the open-mouthed listeners to have a warm spot in their hearts for "a poor Irishman who had a wee bit too much to drink...
This was evidently the right tack Craven, who boasts "a wee bit of Irish blood," forked over three dollars, and Ensign followed up with two. The stranger promised to return the money on the 21st, when he would rejoin the Flamingo in Brooklyn...
Died. Sir Harry Lauder, 79, stubby, bandy-legged Scottish comic whose pawky burr and lilting ditties (Roamin-in the Gloamin', Wee Hoose 'Mang the Heather, I Love a Lassie) endeared him to millions of vaudeville-goers and record listeners the world over; after long illness; in Strathaven (rhymes with raven), Scotland. Reared in poverty, the onetime mill boy and coal miner waggled his kilt and twirled his famous crooked stick to delight three generations. He acquired a fortune and (wrote Winston Churchill) "by his inspiring songs and valiant life . . . rendered measureless service to the Scottish race...
...Cronin of the Red Sox. After a brief talk, slugging Ted Williams, baseball's best batter, signed a 1950 contract for the most money ever paid a big-league player, an estimated $110.000.* Mourned Brooklyn's tight-fisted Branch Rickey, who had just raised Dodger Stars Pee Wee Reese and Jackie Robinson to alltime Brooklyn highs of $35,000: "In my 38 years . . . [in] organized ball this is the greatest inflationary period I've ever known . . . Even the players who had bad years do not expect...