Word: slappers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...together in a North Hollywood High School dance band. When it began to look more like a rut than a groove, 17-year-old Piano Player Johnny ("Curley") Williams (named after his drummer father) broke away and formed his own quintet. He took with him Mel Sidney, a bullfiddle slapper like his dad, Al Pollen. Other recruits were 16-year-old Perry ("Bunny") Bodtkin, the trombone-playing son of Bing Crosby's guitar accompanist, and Gene Estes and Don Ingle. "Boy," says Curley, "we yanked the nucleus right out of that Hollywood High band...
...week of desperation OPA also got some bad publicity. In Los Angeles one of its raiding agents made the mistake of getting his picture taken while threatening an auto salesman with a "slapper" (see BUSINESS). The incident brought a somewhat shamefaced confirmation from OPA that several hundred of its "special agents" (none concerned with food) are now authorized to carry arms...
...another result of the raids-part of a nationwide drive-was not so pleasant. One car salesman was grabbed by an OPAster and threatened with a "slapper" (a blackjack-like weapon of thick pieces of leather sewn together-see cut) because OPAsters thought he was trying to get away. He was not actually hit, and was later released. But OPA's new treat-'em-rough tactics, reminiscent of the notorious "prohibition officer" hoodlums of the dry era, were bound to make new enemies...
...admitted that his mail was running almost 5-to-1 against the paper's high-blood-pressure cry for a court-martial. And from Mishawaka, Ind., Casketmaker Herman F. Kuhl, father of one of Patton's slapped soldiers, wrote his Congressman, forgiving the slap and promoting the slapper's pro motion. The prevailing Congressional opinon was that Patton, exactly like any other soldier, should stay where his superiors considered him most effective...
...story . . . did not "crop up" in Amarillo, Tex. It occurred in Wichita, Kans. The actual slapper involved was a man, not a woman as your story states. When the slappee appealed for help another woman passenger remarked that she felt like repeating the angered father's handwork...