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...murder, and was an encyclopedia of "sinful" songs (TIME, May 15, 1939). Lomax, now a hefty Army private, disapproves of his own twangy Texas voice, uses it constantly to "sell the Archive." At sings late at night in his Greenwich Village apartment, he is often joined by his sister, Bess Lomax Hawes, who has handled the music for OWI's overseas broadcasts. By last week the Library of Congress had employed four clerks to handle 30,000 inquiries about his records. He describes the albums as: "Plain and unadulterated folk song, usually about death, sweat, hard work, love...
Miss America (The Bronx's Bess Meyerson, 21) got a gallery-eye view-of the U.S. Senate, which also got a look at her and applauded her bond-selling achievements'. Tennessee's sulphurous old Senator Kenneth McKellar, 76, got something extra before she left: a patriotic buss...
Three years ago, bustling, red-haired Mrs. Clarence Norton ("Gussy") Goodwin, a Washington socialite, organized a session of Spanish classes for friends in her Shoreham Hotel apartment. The teacher: a suave, rumba-dancing bachelor, Senor Ramon Ramos. When Bess Truman left to become First Lady, Gussy's class lost a star pupil...
...that afternoon Bess Truman, only an honorary Daughter, attended a D.A.R. tea in her honor. Asked if she might be a guest at similar teas, later, the taciturn First Lady shrugged. "Why not?" she asked...
...getting into grand opera. After teaching music and English in Louisville (Ky.) City College and Washington's Howard University, he made his operatic debut in Manhattan in an all-Negro version of Cavalleria Rusticana. George Gershwin read the rave reviews, gave Baritone Duncan the lead in Porgy and Bess. He has since sung the part more than 1,200 times. He has also made concert tours, taught singing, had a key spot in Broadway's Cabin in the Sky, floundered through a jive film called Syncopation. (Says Todd Duncan: "Hollywood's not looking for my type...