Word: banjo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pappy's" pensions are dead in Texas, but vaudeville boomed again last week as six 1940 candidates for Governor, including Pappy O'Daniel, wound up their primary campaigns. This year, from Lee O'Daniel's troupe, two star attractions were weaned away: crooning Banjo Player Leon Huff and Steel Guitarist Kermit ("Horace the Love Bird") Whalen. They joined the company of snuff-dipping, wisecracking Candidate Gerald Anthony ("Jerry") Sadler, 32, onetime bellhop, now a member of the Texas Railroad Commission. The other four candidates were...
...loaded with troubled heroines. At 1:15-1:30 p.m. (E. S. T.) on April 30, Tuesdays and Thursdays thereafter, Sweetheart Toilet Soap Presents Eleanor Roosevelt will be heard over NBC's Red Network. Current Sweetheart Soapster is Baritone Jack Berch, whose Song Club (piano, banjo, swing accordion) has for its theme song: Hello, There, Anybody Home...
Marriage Attempted. Mary Cohan, estranged daughter of Actor George Michael Cohan (who never forgave her for eloping with a banjo player in 1927); and one George Ranken, an accordion player. Balked by Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia laws that called for several days' wait. Elopers Cohan & Ranken returned to their Manhattan nightclub jobs. Said she: "Now I don't know if we'll get married...
...Rainey Bennett got his first artistic recognition as a high-school cartoonist in suburban Oak Park, Ill., helped pay his way through college by playing tenor banjo in a jazz band. He studied art in Chicago and Manhattan, now teaches it at Chicago's Art Institute. His favorite expletive: "Blue eggs...