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Since Oldtime Songwriter Hughie Cannon wrote the lyrics in 1902, singers have been pleading in every form of jazz from ragtime to bop: "Won't you come home, Bill Bailey, won't you come home? Bill...
...Bailey, won't you please come home?" These days, any enterprising traveler in the Far East can hear the answer-a firm no-from Bill Bailey himself...
Well, almost himself. Billy Bailey is 73 and runs Singapore's Coconut Grove, an obscure and homey bar (no unescorted women allowed) next door to a Buddhist nunnery on Singapore's Cuppage Road. A guitar keeps the air moving. The drinks are on the level, and the talk is good, since Iowa-born, ex-Vaudevillian Bailey does most...
...Bill Bailey ought to know. Born in 1886, the son of a patent-medicine hawker, he learned song-and-dance routines to help sell the family product: Bailey's Gypsy Liniment. At 120-proof, the stuff worked like magic. Later, in vaudeville, Bill hoofed up with a singer named Dave Hodges, who changed his name to Barnum so the pair could work their way around the country as Bailey & Barnum. They were a sort of circus minimus until a Manhattan impresario gave them a five-minute spot in Fred and Adele Astaire's Lady, Be Good. The playbill...
Among other Experimenters to "pioneer" countries, Michael A. Curran '60 will be a member of the Experiment's first group to Cracow, Poland, and Thankful D. Bailey '61 will be the first Radcliffe Experimenter to travel to Nigeria. The Experiment awarded a Stettenheim scholarship to John Cherubini '60 for his trip to Italy...