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...other stable, Iron Liege would have been top banana. But at Mrs. Gene Markey's fabulously successful Calumet Farm he was only a talented understudy,* the pacesetter for the compact Gen. Duke, ranked by the experts as the finest three-year-old in the land. At post time Iron Liege was held at better than 8 to 1 in the finest field to run in years. Even his jockey, brash Willie Hartack, doubted his chances. Bold Ruler, ridden by canny Eddie Arcaro, was a solid 6-to-5 favorite...
...simplest way for an advertiser to get music for his commercials is to take it free from the public domain, e.g., Rheingold Beer's current use of the Banana Boat Song. The sponsor may also buy commercial rights to hit melodies. The fees run into thousands of dollars in the case of composers such as Cole Porter, who leased his It's De-Lovely to De Soto. At first, songwriters resisted this practice, but now many of them welcome it. They not only share the fees with their publishers, but they get regular ASCAP...
Marriage Revealed. Harold George (Harry) Belafonte Jr., 30, Harlem-born calypso singer (The Banana Boat Song) and cinemactor (Carmen Jones); and Julie Robinson, 28, sometime dancer with Katherine Dunham's troupe; on March 8, a week after his divorce from Wife No. 1; in Tecate, Mexico...
Sacred Duty. Husky, blue-eyed Reporter Dubois, who wears unbreakable plastic spectacles as a precaution against manhandling, keeps his ears cocked for news leads by carrying a pocket radio wherever he goes. In nearly 30 years (ten for the Trib) on the banana-belt beat, he has developed an uncanny facility for guessing when and where a story will break. In Guatemala, where he reported as early as 1948 that the Arevalo regime was Communist-infiltrated, he arrived on the scene only hours before Castillo Armas' successful uprising broke out in 1954. New York-born Dubois speaks fluent Spanish...
...Charlie Shedd dropped to his knees during a morning meditation in Oklahoma and prayed: "Dear God, I've tried for 15 years to whip this problem of obesity . . . I've been on banana diets and eaten red meat. I've taken pills and bought reducing belts. I've read books and attended lectures, joined clubs and enrolled in courses. But I'm still fat ... I need help...