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  • Description: sharing how he passes the time with a phonograph and a radio playing popular recordings, the news, and swing music from the United States.
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  • Text: . We have a phonograph and a radio to pass some time away and it sure hits the spot. We have popular recording programs such as Bing Crosby, Eddie Cantor, Red Skeleton and so forth. On the radio we get the news [Page 3] and swing music coming from
Letter from Joe Olexa to Agnes Van Der Weide, October 8, 1942

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  • Text: have a little jazz music to brighten us up a bit. What are the most popular songs and bands back now days? The last one I got a chance to hear was “When the Lights gone on again All over the World.” [sic] From what I hear my brother Ollie has been
Letter from Joe Olexa to Agnes Van Der Weide, August 12, 1943

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  • Description: music. 11:47 Sightseeing and family affairs.
Kunming, 1938

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  • Text: the way they sang. “Silent Night” made everybody pretty homesick and you could see a good many Joes holding back the tears. It doesn’t seem like Christmas over here Jeannie. Oh, there are some decorated trees and a lot of Christmas music, but that isn’t
Letter to Jean Worthington by Edward "Ned" Manley, December 25, 1945.

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Letter from Joe Olexa to Agnes Van Der Weide, January 14, 1944

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Letter from Joe Olexa to Agnes Van Der Weide, January 15, 1944

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  • Text: by my lonesome. I saw “My Gal Loves Music”, with Bob Crosby. I came right home after the show, stopping off to pick up a skirt and coat from the cleaners. I got home at 7:15 right on the dot. Ive been on the go eversince. I talked to [Page 2] 2. Norma
Letter to Edward "Ned" Manley by Jean Worthington, March 17, 1945.

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  • Text: to tell you he said “hello” The family is well, and the kids are as mean as ever. Im sitting at the dining room table. Got some music on the radio – their playing “Saturday Night Is The Loneliest Night Of The Week”. Know [text strikethrough] who’s
Letter to Edward "Ned" Manley by Jean Worthington, May 18, 1945.

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  • Text: was swell seeing her again, honestly. She’s really looking good, and so changed since the last time I saw her. She’s so much happier We went and saw “Music For Millions”, it was swell. Then we had dinner at Clacks. We were going to bowl at the Trainon
Letter to Edward "Ned" Manley by Jean Worthington, March 18, 1945.

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  • Text: I think of it. We have a radio in our ward now and it’s grand to hear the news and music by leading bands. Two more days and it will be the 4th of July and my mind rushes back to the time when we were last together. I shall never forget that day
Letter from Joe Olexa to Agnes Van Der Weide, July 2, 1944

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  • Text: sister Frances is very nice. She’s 19 and she probably can show you around. [Page 2] The folks will sure make you feel at home for I ought to know them. I haven’t heard any of the new songs you mentioned and wish that I could hear the music of them. So
Letter from Joe Olexa to Agnes Van Der Weide, September 20, 1943

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  • Text: not won. As Lukacs writes, it is inconceivable that in the First World War, a nationalist war, a bar of German music (the first bar of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony - three shorts notes and one long note: Morse code "V'' for victory), could have been adopted
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