Word: jam
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Friday nights, lower Second Avenue resounds to simultaneous jam sessions at the Stuyvesant Casino (9th Street) and Central Plaza (6th). Ella Fitzgerald is at Birdland, Broadway near 52nd. Josh White and a cover charge go hand in hand at Cafe Society, Sheridan Square...
...loudspeaker, a band holding a jam session, Radcliffe girls and Yard cops helped add to the general confusion prevalent in the Union during the week...
...Three Cabots, a Coolidge and a Lowell joined in a group telegram to Truman and Acheson asking arbitration and concessions to the Communists. There were peeved cracks about MacArthur's misconstrued "home by Christmas" remarks-the familiar fate of a general in a jam and a public caught by surprise. There was outspoken criticism of the Administration. Said an Iowa filling-station operator: "They piddled around and piddled around. I wonder what the hell they were thinking about...
...living in fear of war. It is in a jam in Korea, and unable right now to defend Europe. In one breath it begs its enemies to hold their fire; in another breath it confesses its own weaknesses. It does not want to get in trouble with anybody; it just wants brotherhood and peace...
...gesticulating armies of children who will jam Central Park West and Broadway this week to see Macy's famed Thanksgiving Day parade were prepared for what could only be described as a Sensational Experience. Bands, clowns, floats and gigantic, inflated rubber animals were scheduled as usual. But Macy's, in one of its super coups, -had also procured the services of the noblest drugstore cowboy of them all-none other than television's black-clad, white-haired, 55-year-old William ("Hopalong Cassidy") Boyd...