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Robinson shifts roles between a lazy deputy sheriff of Calliboga and "The Ruler of the Queen's Navee," but he plays only Bill Robinson--the man with the magic feet and the friendly voice and the glorious smile. Whether he's just plain tap dancing, or humming "I Am the Monarch of the Sea," or imitating a 1902 waltz, he steps the show. Long doesn't have too much to do in the play. He concentrates on his own special variety of modern dancing--the slinky gesture and the ecstatic leap that made him famous as Sportin' Life in "Porgy...
Over the Hump. Ike Tigrett kept on buying up tottering railroads whenever he could get them at bottom prices, and used them to tap new sources of traffic for the G.M. & N. In 1933 he leased the New Orleans Great Northern Railway Co., which soon gave him a line into New Orleans and a chance to bid for export-Si -import freight traffic. In 1940 Tigrett bought the Mobile & Ohio Railroad...
...Rayburn had just poured the Vice President a drink of bourbon and tap water when there was a call from the White House. Steve Early was on the wire. As he listened, Harry Truman's face turned pale. He left abruptly, saying not a word. But his sudden action spoke loudly enough. Every man in that room knew that Franklin Roosevelt's health had been swiftly declining. Said Sam Rayburn before the Vice President got to the door: "We'll all stand by you, Harry...
...Braniff searched the air transport industry for good men, sent his gangling Braniff Airways north to tap the rich traffic at Kansas City, Chicago and Denver. A businessman with a hawk eye for facts & figures, Braniff watched his operating costs, held losses at a minimum...
...field will tap the New York area's 30,000 to 40,000 postwar private planes, may become the north anchor of a bustling Westchester-to-New York City shuttle line...