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...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...
WITHIN hours after the first Russian troops had entered Pyongyang in September 1945, nearly every billboard and wall space in the city was plastered with effective, brightly colored posters extolling the military and civil virtues of the Soviet Union. In every section of the city (pop. 300,000), Russian-trained Korean agitators hammered home the same ideas from soapboxes and sound trucks. Within a few days Pyongyang's Peony Point Park had been named Molotov Park, the Taedong River had become the Lenin River, and Bell Road, the city's main thoroughfare, had been renamed Stalin Street...
...that the government prohibition of church publicity makes laymen more zealous in bringing others into the church. "There isn't a preacher in America who wouldn't rather have his laymen . . . constantly cover the neighborhood with quiet personal invitations to church than have all the newspaper and billboard advertising that money could...
Soon after V-J day, proud U.S. cavalrymen raised a yellow and black billboard on the western outskirts of Tokyo. It read: "You are now entering Tokyo by courtesy of the 1st Cavalry Division-First in Manila; First in Tokyo-The First Team." As last week began, the dismounted troopers of the 1st Cavalry had every intention of adding "First in Pyongyang" to their battle honors...
...Robbins Music Corp. Scout Billy White. Robbins decided to publish it; in rapid succession, seven record companies rushed out versions for either their "popular" or "faith" lists. By last week, with three separate recordings by Singers Kitty Kallen (with Richard Hayes), Tony Bennett and Red Foley appearing on Billboard and Variety popularity polls, Mrs. Gollahon glowed: "Why I feel like I'm dreaming yet. I didn't even intend Fatima to be commercial. It just happened...