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...psychopathic strain in the old Austin High School crowd, which included Jimmy and Rich MacUartland, Bud Freeman, Floyd O'Brien, Frank Teschemacher, and allied members such as Dave Hough, Jess Stacy, Gene Krupa, Joe Sullivan, Muggsy Spanier, and Mezz Mezzrow. For instance, Tesch married a gal who used to pour nothing but straight gin on her corn flakes...

Author: By S/sgt GEORGE Avakian, | Title: JAZZ, ETC. | 11/12/1943 | See Source »

...boats, jostling and bumping, while destroyers fired arching red balls ashore. Then the red balls seemed to bounce back, and we realized with horror that the Japs were thoroughly awakened and were returning fire. The jungle remained inviolate, as though it could soak up all the fire we could pour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Come Out and Fight | 11/8/1943 | See Source »

...week husky, homespun R. J. Thomas, head of C.I.O.'s powerful United Automobile Workers, invaded Texas to test the law. In the little oil town of Pelly, he hoisted his 240 lb. to a platform, made an organizing speech while workers encouraged him with traditional Texas yells of "Pour it on 'em." Deputy Sheriff W. B. Milner whispered to Thomas' publicity man that "it wouldn't count" unless Thomas made a direct appeal to an individual. The publicity man passed up a note to his boss. Said he: "It's getting damned hard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Get Arrested | 10/4/1943 | See Source »

...civilian (among several hundred who have received it were some victims of the Boston Coconut Grove fire), but it was by far the most publicized. Within a few hours after the nation's press had picked up Patricia's story, requests for penicillin began to pour into WPB, the Army, the White House. Only a few applicants, with diseases for which penicillin has been proved effective,* got it (one who did died nonetheless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Rush on Penicillin | 8/30/1943 | See Source »

...order to wipe out for once and for all the Crimson Menace. Operating strictly under order from the Blue Square in New Haven, I revealed the intolerable conditions in the Ha'v'd Ya'd and got a DSC and a shiny new yo-yo from the PBY committee (Pour le Bettrement de Yale), Fifth Column Division...

Author: By S/sgt. GEORGE Avakian, | Title: SPECIALISTS' CORNER | 8/27/1943 | See Source »

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