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Other bandleaders decided to take a ride too. Phil Harris cut in with Muskrat Ramble and Walk with a Wiggle, planned also to make his next album with a New Orleans beat. Tommy Dorsey hastily reassembled his old Clambake Seven to record Way Down Yonder in New Orleans and Tiger Rag. Gene Krupa parked his successful 16-piece band, picked up a six-man crew in & around Greenwich Village and recorded his first oldtime jazz in more than ten years. Exchanging his tux for shirt sleeves and slacks, Drummer Krupa, who had his first taste of jazz from Louis Armstrong...
...Whiting (Till We Meet Again, Japanese Sandman, Sleepy Time Gal) was already a big moneymaker in the Pianola, windup phonograph and battery-radio era of popular music. Her aunt and namesake, raucous-voiced Vaudevillian Margaret Young, introduced such ragtime hits as Nobody's Sweetheart Now and Way Down Yonder in New Orleans. Sophie Tucker was little Margaret's red-hot godmamma...
Yearning for a little post-election privacy 59-year-old Bill O'Dwyer last week whisked Sloan Simpson into a green and white police plane and flew off into the wild blue yonder. The press was caught flatfooted. Two hours later the City Hall gave out a statement: "The mayor and Miss Sloan Simpson are at the Gideon Putnam Hotel in Saratoga Springs, where they will be the guests of Mr. & Mrs. Martin J. Sweeney." Guessing at an elopement, a swarm of newsmen and photographers lit out for Saratoga, there cornered the flustered mayor. Was it wedding bells that...
...augmented his permanent staff in the Studebaker plant from 28 to 39, talked each design over with engineers to see if it was feasible. From hundreds of tentative designs Loewy pulled a curve here, a hood there, a fender sweep yonder, then "mocked up" about a dozen experimental models in clay, one-quarter size, and worked on them. Says Studebaker's President Harold S. Vance: "I have seen Loewy shake his head in disapproval, then take out a knife and with one sweep correct the clay model to perfection...
...time or another, many a commercial pilot has felt the sweat of anxiety starting on his brow as he saw, off in the distance, a young fighter pilot climbing into the wild blue yonder with 2,000 h.p. in front of him and a good breakfast under his belt. Sometimes those fighter pilots experienced an exuberant urge for self-expression which could only be satisfied by a thunderous dive on a herd of cows, a pretty girl's house, or on a slow and whalelike commercial airliner...