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...become 1951's first big hit. Its sprightly tempo had been slowed by Conductor-Composer Percy Faith to a lazy waltz, and its elegant tale of pastoral courtship changed to a monotonous lover's lament.* Result: the song is a favorite with crooners, hillbilly specialists and barroom baritones. Six of its eleven recorded versions (including those by Guy Mitchell, Dinah Shore and Jimmy Wakely) are listed on Billboard and Variety popularity charts...
...Home & Abroad. In Providence, R.I., Harold Fitzpatrick, after a barroom celebration, explained how he happened to throw bricks through 16 panes of glass in a downtown business building: "I thought I was in Woonsocket...
...Arizona Plain Talk, a weekly, shouldered into the barroom argument. Either someone on the paper was working with the drys, said the weekly, or "the paper has been duped by one of the most obvious and oldest frauds in journalism." Another weekly, the Arizona News (circ. 5,217), thought it was mighty peculiar that the Republic ran "hard liquor advertising ($200,000 worth a year) that drives my daddy to hard drinking...
...Gunfighter (20th Century-Fox) is a maverick western: it spends most of its time indoors. Its hero (Gregory Peck) is a celebrated desperado who wants to go straight. With a limited amount of gunfire and hard riding, the movie makes every shot count, manages to fill a barroom interior with more suspense than most horse operas get from all outdoors...
Like the luscious nude over the barroom mirror, or Mother Goose in the nursery, the bright prints of pink-coated foxhunters have become the standard pictures for thousands of U.S. libraries, dens and rumpus rooms. Richard Gump, the iconoclastic, 44-year-old president of Gump's famed art store in San Francisco, thinks that's a shame. "Why not baseball or football pictures?" he asks. "Those frozen hunting prints have become purely functional, like door knobs. Pictures mean nothing unless they make sense to the man who looks at them...