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Consensus of the opinions of these Louis intimates: "Joe is a big, likable kid, but not too bright," spendthrift, sleepy, easygoing as an Alabama field hand. Marva Louis told how nonsmoking, nondrinking Joe frittered away fabulous sums of money on cab fares and cabaret checks for his friends. Trainer Jack Blackburn admitted that Joe didn't care much, one way or the other, about fighting. From newspapers and court files Earl Brown traced Manager Roxborough's connections with the numbers racket, Manager Julian Black's impressive police record. Some of the more lurid facts about the Louis...
...same great crowds of office workers swarmed from the Government buildings at 4:30 p.m.; the same old familiar groups of spies and gossipers met for cocktails at sundown; New Dealers and newly drafted industrialists were alike caught in traffic jams when sudden summer storms drenched the cab-filled streets...
...Washington, a taxi driver found in the back seat of his cab one artificial Negro right leg wearing a sport shoe, sock, and grey trouser...
...strutted up and down the stage, the king of Hi-de-ho. Cab Calloway soon got over two thousand hands "booging it" in time and later yielded to demands for his "Minnie the Moocher" and a few minutes of "Hep talk...
With a repertoire of songs, Cab Calloway, the King of Hi-de-ho, is the first on the program of celebrities, who are offering their services to the class of 1943. He will be followed by the long-awaited, much discussed, and much secreted "Mystery Woman...