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    What are you wearing today??

    "And some people say if you stand at the edge of the woods on a foggy night, you might catch a glimpse of her-- looking just as she did in 1934, on the day she walked in front of the Flyer, on the 85-mph stretch of track south of town..."
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    Riding aboard trains during the Late Days of World War Two

    Seen in the above still from "Troop Train" is Southern Railway #635. Southern #630 operates in Chattanooga Tennesee now. I'm not sure but I suspect those engines, five numbers apart, could be considered "sisters."
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    Buster Keaton hat

    I love the scene in Steamboat Bill, Jr. (right?) where he plays a guy who doesn't wear a hat, who needs to evade the Sheriff and therefore wants to change his appearance. He stands in front of a mirror trying on hat-after-hat-after-hat-after-hat... and when he gets to "the Keaton hat" he looks...
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    The Devil In the White City

    I read it several years ago. The only word I can come up with for Holmes is "diabolical." Or "psychopathic"... whatever-works-to-my-benefit. At the time I was hoping it would be made into a film. I've never seen a Leo movie. Celine Dion still keeps me away from Titanic. (Maybe someone...
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    Vintage Baseball

    Vin Scully (who is staying at least to 2012) does all nine innings (without a "color man") for the Dodgers on TV, for almost all home games, and Western Division road games. That can be on the local cable channel, or on the broadcast TV outlet (Channel 9 these days.) His call is carried on...
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    Riding aboard trains during the Late Days of World War Two

    Assuming the question is about the U.S.... in the stated time period there were a lot of men being moved from the eastern and midwestern bases, to the west coast so they could take part in the anticipated invasion of Japan. Some of them had already served in Europe. There were many dedicated...
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    Show us your TIES

    The 1940s radio comedian Henry Morgan made fun of the other radio comedians constantly trading on "local color" references such as "Hollywood and Vine," "Sunset and Vine" etc. Morgan gave himself huge canned audience laughter for a mention of the ultimate intersection, "Vine and Vine."
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    A joke from the Howard Brothers

    (Willie and Eugene; Jewish comics famous from the teens to the thirties) So tell me about him-- what does he do? He woiks in the open spaces. Is he a rancher, in the North? No. He makes the button-holes, in the Vest.
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    Brim up or Brim Down

    The front brim of my psuedo-Panama got flipped up and I didn't realize it. A lady friend said, "I like your hat with the brim up... it looks like Abbott and Costello." A male friend came along immediately behind her and whispered "No, it looks better DOWN."
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    Bow Ties

    Ross Dress for Less has joined the bow tie revival, but not at quite such a low price as similar stores. For 12.99 some of them have Tommy Hilfiger, which are slightly distinctive in that the ends are wider than the widest part of the curved section. And for the same price you can get...
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    Clean Jokes

    Do you suppose various collections of clever (and "homespun") remarks have had Will Rogers' name stuck on them, whether or not he said them or wrote them? A similar thing has happened to Andy Rooney, Robin Williams, George Carlin etc. in more recent times. I'm just sayin'...
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    Coming this fall: ABC's "Pan Am" -- "Mad Men" in the skies?

    I remember when Pan Am went under, a news article mentioned that the famous trademark would be auctioned off for whatever use it might have in the future-- such as on suitcases, coffee mugs, t-shirts, whatever. I thought, Wow, they never got that moon shuttle going... (2001: A Space Odyssey.)...
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    What are you wearing today??

    Re Monty Python "RAF Banter" sketch: Makes me stomach feel kinda mimsy-wimsy (as Dana Carvey's "Paul McCartney" might say.)
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    What are you listening to?

    With that title, it could be the flip side of "She's Choppin' Bro-co-lay" by Dana Carvey... (a song snippet from a comedy bit about 1980's rockers)
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    What are you wearing today??

    -------------------- It does look like it's from a magazine of the time-- not quite LIFE magazine, but another. Well, except that a magazine probably wouldn't have used an image where the subject's feet are incomplete...
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    Bow Ties

    I've heard of snakes-in-the-mailbox, but never eels...
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    What are you wearing today??

    Wearing the hat, you remind me of a letter opener my mother used to keep in the kitchen "utility" drawer. Of course it would be interesting to know who made the letter opener (does it ring a bell with anyone?)
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    Another attempt by Victor Gook to wear a wide-brimmed hat

    I found another Vic and Sade radio show from the 1940s in which Vic is hoping to get away with wearing a wide-brimmed hat. By claiming he won it in a bet with a co-worker. A bet about who could tie his shoes faster. But Sadie won't stand for it, telling him, "When you wear a wide-brimmed hat...
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    What are you listening to?

    I just saw Janet Klein and her Parlor Boys perform that song tonight, at the Coffee Gallery Backstage (Altadena, Calif.)
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    What are you listening to?

    I've been re-listening to Groucho Marx on "Pabst Blue Ribbon Town" (1943-44.) Fay McKenzie was singer and "audio eye candy" on that show, and I met her last week at a movie screening. But it's a good thing she said in her interview, that she was "Groucho's co-star on radio" because up til then...

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