Word: woke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whiteman added Harry Barris to Bing and Al, called them The Rhythm Boys and featured them on tour. Says Bing: "We laid them out in sections-we fractured them." Bing adds that he also fractured himself with too much booze, too little work, and too many unlikely companions. He woke up after one binge in a mobster hideout with police machine guns playing chopsticks on the door...
Sense of Humor. In New York City, headed for a European tour, Mrs. Virginia Roth, 25, woke up in a Manhattan hotel to find missing 1) her husband Marvin, 2) all her extra clothes, 3) $3,700 in cash, later explained to police: "He's quite a practical joker...
...London apartment, robbery-prone (three times in four years) Skating Star Sonja Henie woke with a scream, then dashed into the street in a barefoot, unsuccessful pursuit of thieves who had stripped her bedroom of an Aleutian mink coat ($18,000), an ermine coat ($7,000), a mink jacket ($3,500), two gold compacts, $840 in cash...
Savings Plan. In Las Vegas, Nev., Motorist Ray N. Hall slept in his car to save on hotel bills, woke up to find $150 worth of luggage stolen, went to call police, returned to find the rest of his belongings gone...
...into his Lancia one day in 1949 and headed south through the boot of Italy for a vacation. When night fell, the count stopped at one bug-ridden hotel after another, looking for a place to sleep, but found them all booked solid. Marzotto finally slept in his car, woke up rumpled and resolved. He dashed back to Rome, called on President Einaudi and Premier de Gasperi, and asked: "Do you realize how much good tourist money Italy is losing by not having developed southern tourist trade? Why not build hotels and hotels and hotels?" Since...