Pal Joey Lyricist
The author is John O’Hara, whose Appointment in Samarra resided unread (by me at least) in my stepfather’s bookcase for decades. Turns out that Pal Joey is a collection of fictional letters by the self-proclaimed “poor man’s Bing Crosby,” most of which ran in The New Yorker in 1939 and 1940. I don’t think I will be able to take it out here much more. In the 1st place it is because you never saw such cold weather until you spent a winter in Chi.
Sources:
- readingunderthecovers.blogspot.com
- thefrozenwave.twitterusergroup.com
- www.tcm.com
- www.tvguide.com
- bnewsupdate.blogspot.com
- richardswheeler.wordpress.com
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