LizzieMaine
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Jack needs to loosen that tie. I think it's cutting off the oxygen to his brain.
Jack needs to loosen that tie. I think it's cutting off the oxygen to his brain.
...Former Vice Premier of Vichy France Pierre Laval was abruptly released from confinement today after a sudden visit to Premier Marshal Henri Petain by a personal envoy of Adolf Hitler. Marshal Petain claimed that Laval was plotting against him, and it was after discovering that that he compelled Petain to resign from the Cabinet. The visit to Petain by German Ambassador Otto Abetz was an expression of "serious concern" on the part of the Nazi government over recent events in Vichy, and Abetz reinforced upon Marshal Petain the importance of full French cooperation in the spread of the "New Order" across Europe....
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I am remind by this how, in the 1950's, Lionel decided to market an electric toy train "just for girls," I suppose in the belief that girls were envious of the O-27 trains of their brothers. Freight cars, caboose, and even the steam locomotive were all in the most infantile pink and baby blue hues... and naturally the little girls wanted nothing to do with them. If she wanted a train set like her brother, she wanted one that looks more like a real train, too. The Boys really fumbled, the "Girl Train Sets" went unsold... and if you can find one in mint condition today it's actually quite rare and valuable.
Aw, c'mon Jack. WNEW's got a pretty strong signal, and the "Milkman's Matinee" doesn't play no waltzes!
I so so so miss being able to listen to Al “Jazzbeaux” Collins on WNEW. There would be insomniac nights when I’d reach over in the wee hours and switch on the tube-powered Art Deco Zenith. The glow would slowly grow as the tubes warmed up, and there would be Jazzbeaux, broadcasting from the Purple Grotto three stories below Manhattan, opening his show with “Milkman’s Matinee.” Some nights, whoever was playing in town would come down after their gigs and jam in the studio. The soft glow of the radio dial, the only light in the room, and the smell that only hot tubes make, combined to make a warm, magical cocoon, and it could almost feel like I was the only one listening. Radio could be so good when it tried. But then there was the night I switched on the set, and the broadcast had devolved to being yet another syndicated episode of Larry King “Live.” I was heartbroken, and still am.
https://bayarearadio.org/audio/al-jazzbeaux-collins-jazzbo
(Some recordings of broadcasts at the end.)
And later on in the evening there is Holloywood Radio 360 at 8pm over on 560 AM in Chicago. Link: https://www.hollywood360radio.com/auto-draft-3-2/
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("Hey, whaddya know?" observers Joe. "Sam an' Mamie Mullins got t'same tattoo!" "Oughta send *her* ova't Goimany'." says Sally. "Hitla'd nevvaknowwhat hitt'm!)..
...Pee Wee Reese will head to spring training in February with a new pair of shoes -- one of which contains special reinforcement to protect the heel he injured last August. In the meantime he'll continue to wear the hillbilly-looking high tops he sported when he came to New York this week for a medical checkup....
... View attachment 290751 I don't know about immortality, but if those eyes are any indication, you really need to get the kid's thyroid checked.....
^^^Leona, Slim, and the nurse: ménage a t- sans ménage...no, Slim was dreamin, that ba***rd.