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...gracious Charleston, the still midsummer air was broken by the sound of two Southern gentlemen campaigning. Just before South Carolina's Democratic primary, 4,000 voters had crowded into a ball park to boo or cheer the two voices bursting out of the loudspeakers...
...Boo! In West Palm Beach, Fla., county officials, harried by the courthouse pigeons, pondered, decided to spend $5.76 for 36 rubber garter snakes to be placed on the ledge where the pigeons gather...
...reaction to the riding he took (and still takes) was typical. Boos burned him up, though he asked for them, and he could not help hearing every loud taunt from the bleachers. He had what ballplayers call "rabbit ears," which pricked and blushed at every hostile sound. "Why do they cheer me for hitting a homer," he asked, "and then boo me for grounding out the next time up? I'm still the same guy, ain't I? ... They can all go to hell. I'll never tip my cap to them." Baseball Immortal Eddie Collins...
...beat. Consistently, since 1931, radio editors had ranked them among the top dance bands on the air. For 20 years their gross had been near $1,000,000 a year. They had introduced more than 300 hits, such as Little White Lies, You're Driving Me Crazy, Boo-Hoo-and were still playing all of them the same old way. This year, the American Society of Teachers of Dancing thanked them with a Distinguished Service Scroll for consistently acting as a bulwark against "invasions by hordes of cynical jive extremists...
...three years ago to get up his own band, was just about the most disturbing thing since the secession of the South. In a way, all of the band members are in the family. If one musician dislikes a new song, out it goes, even if Tunesmith Carm (Coquette, Boo-Hoo) wrote...