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...headed for Westchester County, and Corn Products and Union Camp Co. going to New Jersey, seven of the U.S.'s largest companies had opted out of Fun City, as Mayor John Lindsay likes to call it, within a year. At week's end, pint-sized (250 employees) Bohn Business Machines announced that it would also quit Park Avenue for suburbia. President Arnold Perry blamed rising city taxes and sky-high commercial rents...
...name is Buddy Bohn. He is 23. He graduated from Illinois' Principia College and took off to stroll the earth with a guitar in one hand and a rucksack over his shoulder. He has traveled through 43 countries, and his accounts of his travels are as fabulous as any folk singer could...
...slipped into the kitchen at the Royal Palace in Copenhagen and strummed away to the delight of three scullery maids. But Denmark's King Frederick IX came to see what the noise was, listened for a while in amusement, then returned to his throne, leaving a hungry Bohn behind. Arriving in Algeria at the wrong time (November 1961), he strum-a-strum-strummed through the streets of Oran. Who else would do that but a spy? The S.A.O. grabbed him. He laughed at them, saying he was just a troubadour-vigorously playing and singing for his life. They gave...
...Danny Boy as if it were a New London dairy air. The Thais loosened up and then went crazy for John Henry and Springfield Mountain. King Bhumibol could contain himself no longer. He produced his own saxophone and ended the evening noodling away at various Dixieland selections while Buddy Bohn supplied the obbligato. Bohn invited Bhumibol to renounce his throne and hit the road too. Bhumibol paid Buddy's passage to Hong Kong instead...
Agent's Despair. Buddy Bohn has such a healthy, wash-and-wear body that he looks amazingly fresh after all his travels. He always puts on a clean shirt before singing for his sukiyaki. His baritone is fragile and breaks frequently. But he makes up for it with enthusiasm and philosophy: "The very artlessness of folk songs," he points out, "amounts to eternal and universal art in capturing the hearts of peoples...