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...Banjo-Eyed...
...years every time that one of Willard's comic strip characters referred to Moon Mullins as a "banjo-eyed bum," I have agreed with them that that is just what Mr. Mullins is. But I could never figure it out. Your issue of May 23 says, inter alia, "banjo-eyed Norman Klein." Do Klein's eyes look like banjos, or does Mr. Klein look like Moon Mullins? And another thing, that expression is the only one that angers our Mr. Mullins; a sort of "when you say that, smile" business. Are you not taking considerable chances that...
Fairly typical of first-rate newshawks is short, swart, banjo-eyed Norman Klein, 35. As a cub reporter he covered churches for the Sioux City Tribune, migrated by jumps to the Chicago Daily News. For two years he served that paper as War correspondent on the British front. Next he worked for the Chicago Tribune as "the world's worst copyreader." Manhattan was his goal. He reached it in 1925, frittered away his money on Broadway before looking for a job. When the tabloid Mirror notified him he was hired, he stole an empty milk bottle to raise subway...
...stage designed by G. H. Perkins '26 will be erected in front of the old Freshman Gymnasium and an amplifying system installed so that the music may be heard in all parts of the triangle. The numbers to be rendered by the Instrumental Clubs include presentations by the Banjo and Mandolin Clubs, and specialty pieces by an Hawaiian Guitar quartet, and a vocal trio with guitar accompaniment...
...selections rendered at all concerts will be: Banjo Club: "Campus Memories", "Clicquot", "American Patrol", and "Bullfrog Blues"; Mandolin Club: "Blue Kentuck Moon", "Dark Eyes", "Volga Boatman", and "Selections from Gilbert and Sullivan"; Vocal: "Gay Nineties Medley", "Keep in the Middle of the Road", "Bonnie Dundee", "Australia", and "Johnny Harvard". Three presentations will be made in the way of special numbers; a violin solo, a guitar quartet, and a magician...