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What was that remark? He's probably the only one they have? Fella, you haven't been around very much, have you--wotchya doin'--readin' C.I. all the time? Take that fella who sits next to him "Slush" Buskirk. The armed forces don't have to take Tommy Dorsey if they want a real trombone player. Heck, no, we've got the ace right here in our own ball park. And what about Merv Lysing on the sax? Minnesota sure lost a good bet when he went to Harvard here. And the rhythm section only two pieces, but man, they...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE HARVARD SCUTTLEBUTT | 7/23/1943 | See Source »

Must have a "Welcome" Department this week, so here 'its., Welcome home, Roger Abousamra. It was a long stay in yon hospital and we all's glad to see yo back in there readin', writin', and fightin'. Ben Graves is back, too, after a tussle with "a foreign body, non-traumatic," which, translated, means the removal of a metal, shoulder plate inserted when he busted a bone some time...

Author: By M. J. Roth, | Title: Straight Dope | 4/2/1943 | See Source »

...threatened to close all but one window. In an expansive mood, he once began a letter to Comptroller of the Currency James Francis Thaddeus O'Connor: "Top o' the Mornin' to Ye, Mr. O'Connor! And 'twas with much interest that I be a readin' yours of the 22nd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Englewood Exhibitionist | 10/19/1936 | See Source »

...live soldiers to another: "Kids shouldn't be dead, Charley. That's what they musta figured when the dirt started fallin' in on 'em. . . . Did they want to be standin' there when the lead poured in? They wanted to be home readin' a book or teachin' their kid c-a-t spells cat or takin' a woman out into the country in an open car with the wind blowin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATRE: New Play in Manhattan: Apr. 27, 1936 | 4/27/1936 | See Source »

...minutely, glorying in his Zeus-like superiority to the moiling creatures below. He yawns luxuriously and considers his plans for the day. It is 9.15, and a grinning slave of Morpheus has just begun to sprint furiously, for he and his fellows have Divisionals this morning. For the Vagabond, Readin Period begins...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 5/6/1935 | See Source »

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