Dead Men of the Fifties

by Di Cicco, Pier Giorgio

• ISBN13: 9781894469197
• ISBN10: 1894469194
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-12-15
• Publisher: Mansfield Pr

Table of Contents

Sweeney at the Chesapeake Lounge	1	(38)
How to Receive Signals	3	(1)
What an Adult Would Watch	4	(3)
Sweeney	7	(1)
A Picture Book of Baltimore	8	(2)
Remember	10	(1)
The Purely Personal	11	(1)
Pimlico	12	(1)
Sweeney at the Chesapeake Lounge	13	(1)
Seduction Song	14	(1)
Shore Leave	15	(1)
Maggie on the Dotted Line	16	(1)
Nite-Life	17	(1)
Meeting the Challenges of a Changing World	18	(1)
Sweeney Would Have Liked Route 66	19	(1)
Smiley Burnette	20	(1)
Burlesque Queen	21	(1)
The Music Scene, 1947	22	(1)
Of Sweeney	23	(1)
And So We Sing the Musics	24	(1)
Voices Wafting Through the Severna Park Marina	25	(1)
A Date With Sweeney	26	(1)
Pining	27	(1)
Dirge for Sidney	28	(1)
Johnson	29	(1)
The Men of Jazz	30	(1)
Bongo Intro	31	(1)
The Jive Pigs	32	(1)
The Future from Grant Street	33	(1)
Elegy for a Drummer	34	(1)
Katie and John	35	(1)
Sweeney's Ghost Speaks To Me	36	(1)
Round Again Record	37	(2)
Cavalcade	39	(62)
Weather and the Fifties	41	(1)
The Redheaded Widow	42	(1)
The Bow of the Missouri	43	(1)
On the North Atlantic	44	(1)
The Armistice Day Matinee	45	(1)
Back from Bellevue Psychiatric Hospital, 1951	46	(1)
Spinster Set	47	(1)
We Ran Together in the Rain	48	(1)
What is the Nature of the Dead Men of the Fifties	49	(1)
Barfly, Jack Arema	50	(1)
The Voices Found Under the 43rd St. Viaduct, Brooklyn	51	(2)
Countermark	53	(1)
The Widower	54	(1)
Jackie Bremlin Reflects on his Vaudeville Years	55	(1)
Broderick Looks up from His Ledger	56	(1)
New York Getaway	57	(1)
The Romance of Men	58	(1)
Janet Three Years Before Her Illness	59	(1)
Sales Convention	60	(1)
The Girl in Blue	61	(1)
Little Johnny Daydreams About the Day Trip to the Stockyards	62	(1)
The Spirit of Remembrance	63	(1)
Karen, Coming of Age in Ottawa, Ohio	64	(1)
The Angel Fish are Fifty Cents Each	65	(1)
Rain and the Afternoon	66	(1)
Charlie Remembers that He Has Been Here Most of his Life	67	(1)
Monique Arrives in New York	68	(1)
Mona; the Flower of Greenwich Village	69	(1)
The Parson Walks Out into his Backyard Under the Moon	70	(1)
The Remember Widowing	71	(1)
The Man With No Heart	72	(2)
Almanac	74	(1)
1956, A Year of Promise	75	(1)
The New Start	76	(1)
Sally Wonders in New Haven	77	(1)
What is Perfect About the American Woman	78	(1)
These Princesses	79	(1)
Forget-me-nots	80	(3)
The Dashing Newsmen of Paris March on a Blue Cloud	83	(2)
Jeremy on His Fourth Summer Cruise	85	(1)
Fanny of Omaha Wins a Trip	86	(1)
The Year of Promise	87	(1)
What is Tough for Children	88	(1)
At Home	89	(1)
Proposal	90	(1)
Things I Still Want	91	(2)
Vista Dome	93	(1)
Some Birds Go Southwest	94	(1)
Desert Voice	95	(2)
California Zephyr	97	(1)
I Promise You This	98	(1)
Taking an Afternoon Drive on the Coast	99	(1)
Moving to California	100	(1)
Hooray for Hollywood	101
I Worship You	103	(1)
Bobby Kitonin Clears his Throat	104	(1)
Springtime in Hollywood	105	(1)
The Jet Revolution	106	(1)
The First American Man Flies Over History	107	(1)
The Man Who Played Cochise	108	(1)
Tempo 57, Or the Man Who Watched Too Much TV	109	(1)
Hollywood Hairdresser	110	(1)
The Notion of Envy at Paramount's Canadian News	111	(1)
Jack Parr	112	(1)
The Sometimes Date	113	(1)
Shelley Winters	114	(1)
I Am the Cheery Melody of 1955	115	(1)
What's in it for Miss America?	116	(1)
Her Agent	117	(1)
Give This Note to the Woman Alone	118	(1)
The Tonight Show	119	(1)
Talking to His Manager	120	(1)
The Art Critic Dashes his Brains Against a Rock in Arches National Park, Utah	121	(1)
Sparky, the TV Dog	122	(1)
Bob and Ray, TV Comics and Back Taxes	123	(1)
Liberace	124	(1)
After Losing His Wife To Insanity	125	(1)
Waking Thoughts of the Stars	126	(5)
The Moon and Frank Sinatra	131	(1)
His Memory	132	(2)
Jack Parr Leaves the Network	134	(1)
Shangrila	135	(1)
A Little Fat Man Rises from a Leather Chair	136