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March 01, 2018

Chattanooga Choo-Choo (All Aboard)

On March 1st were born the Broadway actress Monique Fowler, the late Richard Wilbur, the brilliant business executive Louis Gerstner, savior of IBM back when it was teetering on the brink of the abyss back in 1993, and Glenn Miller, whose great train ride we hereby reproduce in honor of all these great folk. That's Milton Berle in confab with Miller. Dororthy Dandridge and the Nicholas Brothers hoof it up about six minutes into this track from the movie Sun Valley Serenade (1941).

 

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I left it
on when I
left the house
for the pleasure
of coming back
ten hours later
to the greatness
of Teddy Wilson
"After You've Gone"
on the piano
in the corner
of the bedroom
as I enter
in the dark


from New and Selected Poems by David Lehman

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