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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Born. To Lieut. Thomas Dudley Har mon, A.A.F.. 25, survivor of two plane crashes, hero of one movie (Harmon of Michigan}, one book (Pilots Also Pray}, many a Michigan football game (All-America, 1939, 1940); and Elyse Knox. 27, blonde screen starlet: their first child, a daughter; in Hollywood. Name: Sharon Kristan. Weight...
...brought his peo ple to the U.S. ''not because he believed that God's voice would speak out of the marsh more clearly than it had spoken out of the vineyard in Wiirttemberg - but be cause the land was fierce and cheap." Celibate Communists. Settling in Har mony, Pennsylvania, his harsh, puritanical doctrines and iron discipline turned the religious zeal of his "spiritual communists" to good account. Within a year his colony of 60 log cabins had become a thriving community with gristmill, barns, shops, houses of worship, sawmills, a tannery and a distillery. To keep...
...saddler, two watchmakers but , . . only 36 farmers and field laborers to feed the large population, still swelling like a tide." Impossible Shangri-La. Owen's earthly paradise was soon torn by dissension and engulfed by practical economics. In less than three years it was all over. New Har mony, lodestar of dreamers and crackpots from all over the earth, was sold to a moon-faced cardsharp and forger who promptly opened a saloon in a handy cow shelter. Robert Owen went on, for 30-odd years, to preach the doctrine of equality, reform and free love to crowned heads...
...Graven Image, a down-at-heels Har-vardman, member of the swank Porcellian Club, begs for a Washington job from the brainy Under Secretary who had been snubbed by Porcellians in college. He gets along fine, is promised the job, then spoils everything by expansively recalling college-club days. "Fellows like you," he bumbles, "you never would have made it in a thousand years." In Radio, a husband slaps his wife, tells her he has discovered her infidelities, and that he can hit her "as much as I want to, because, Baby, you're stuck." ("Uh-huh," she says...
...razzmatazz style- heavy chording in the bass and light finagling in the treble-of which he is still in perfect possession. He worked in a motley of joints, including Chinatown's Chatham Club. Around 1916 Jimmy got together a five-piece Dixieland combination for the Club Alamo in Har lem. Their output is best described by their leader: '"When we played a fox trot in dem days, we had to put up a sign and say 'Fox Trot' so a guy could know what to expect. . . . Playin' pianner, I used to have a racin...