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...Boston college girls, one guitarist, one banjo player, and two parrots named Mack and Bill took their places among the Jubilee election vote-getting devices at the Union last night as the campaign moved into its next to the last night...
Glen H. Taylor, 45, Democrat from Idaho, the banjo-twanging playboy of the Senate. An easy mark for far-left propaganda, he ran as Henry Wallace's vice presidential candidate on the 1948 Progressive Party ticket, has since tried to be a good boy to get Democratic help in his re-election campaign. His major achievement while in office: a "crosscountry peace crusade" on horseback which covered only 275 miles by horse and the rest...
Birdseed & Bandages. Radio Technician Godfrey was sent to a Coast Guard Depot outside Baltimore. Searching for some more interesting avocation than drinking needled beer, he turned up on an amateur hour at station WFBR. With his banjo and one-octave voice, he landed a birdseed company as a $5-a-show sponsor. He also picked up another chore-introducing the speeches of Maryland's late, belligerently anti-dry Governor Albert Ritchie. When Godfrey was offered a full-time job on WFBR, the governor helped him get his separation from the Coast Guard...
...short white pants"). Moreover, though he may be forgiven for crooning in the days of his youth, "My soul seemed a stringed instrument upon which the Gods were playing a melody of despair," it is wearying, 40 years later, to hear the same theme strummed on the same wet banjo: "The moan of the wind in the [South Carolina] pine trees was like the distant singing of the colored people, singing their sad song to a heedless...
...banjo duet, Harry Minkle and Charles Wharton, follow, plucking their merry way through "Wait Till The Sun Shines Nelly." With neither pause nor protest, Mr. Bones, James Shine (electrician) rolls out in front of those staid footlights to the tune of "Alexander's Ragtime Band," followed by Langdell Hall's own Chick Wyman (janitor) crooning in Bostonese the beloved strains of "Are You From Dixie...