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This gruesome assortment of musicians has been using radio the last four months to lead a new trend in U.S. music. It is a deliberate trend back to the corniest ragtime possible. The City Slickers under Lindley Armstrong ("Spike") Jones have made their greatest hit with a barnyard version of the Bronx-cheerful Der Führer's Face. Jones's name for it: "A very violent comic type of music...
...oratory that boomed across the legislative halls of the country's State capitols last week was rich and idiomatic, troubled with thought and sprinkled with barnyard humor. But it was also more than that: better than the voices in Congress, it reflected the temper of the U.S. people in all its variety...
...came down with the disease about a month after a local epidemic of encephalitis among the horses. So, the two Army doctors urge, medical doctors should work closely with veterinarians, since horses can be immunized almost 100%. Hooper Foundation researchers in California and Washington have recently proved that many barnyard animals, principally domestic fowl, act as reservoirs for the virus, presumably transferred to man by mosquitoes...
...I.R.A. hunt. In two days they jailed 200 suspects, most of them from the grim little streets of the Belfast slums. In the towns they found black flags of defiance dangling from lampposts. In the country they found two arms dumps. They killed a sentry in an Antrim County barnyard, discovered he was guarding ten beer kegs of nitroglycerin, 60 revolvers, eight rifles, seven tommy guns, 7,000 rounds of ammunition, hand grenades and tear gas. At a neighboring farm they found a second cache...
...Washington is a breezy hub of the world, where cuss words, flippancy and wisecracks distinguish the august and the great. The Secretary of State lisps, and therefore says "Jesus Kwyst!," report Davis & Lindley, whose admiration for Cordell Hull's profanity and cracker-box yarns about mules, shirttails and barnyard fowl is right in the Washington groove...