Word: yonders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wild Grey Yonder. In Atlanta, Department Store Manager Charles Jagels got an order for five Confederate caps from five U.S. Air Force officers in Korea, accepted their remittance of a $10 Confederate bill...
Harry decides that Eve's is a case of innocence unhinged by a rage to live. Perhaps the Riviera will bring her out of her dreams. It does, of course, with the unexpected help of the French mechanic. He disappears into some wild blue yonder, leaving her with a child, and his casual farewell crashes all Eve's myths and completes her cure...
Tall, rugged (6 ft., 190 Ibs.) Johnny Meyer is no wild-blue-yonder flyboy. A married man and a Dartmouth graduate (specialties: geopolitics, lacrosse, swimming), he is of the new Air Force breed: a cool, workaday airman who talks in terms of "considered audacity" and is proud that in his 2,500 hours of flying he has never washed out or damaged a ship...
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...