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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1941
Page
8
Radio music director Ray Block, once a musician in a struggling dance band, recalls a key moment when a missed bar provoked the leader to insist he "knows your part" while Block notes he hadn’t been paid in three weeks, highlighting early career struggles.
The wife of a chemistry professor pleads for a new gown but he dismisses her tears as mere water with a touch of phosphorus salts and sodium. The exchange ends with his firm refusal.
A motorcycle officer quips about a pilot license as a speeder reveals a Federal license and identity card. The officer remarks it has never happened before, and the speeder responds with a casual “Fly on.”
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