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In Manhattan for an Overseas Press Club dinner in his honor, George C. Marshall was asked to name a couple of favorite songs. Singer Jessica Dragonette bypassed one choice, Rock of Ages, sang his other favorite, Buttons and Bows.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Air Is Filled with Music | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

Born in London's poor East Ham district, the daughter of a plumber, Vera knew five songs, Peggy O'Neil and K-K-K-Katy among them, before she was three. At seven, she was singing, in frills and bows, for Masonic dinners and charity benefits. "A straight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Straight-Faced Kid | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

Mr. Truman had written the words & music. All the 81st Congress had to do was to follow his score. The Fair Deal Fiesta, a grand and expensively produced show, should have been swinging along tunefully, heading toward the grand finale, in which the Republicans in Congress were vanquished, the cast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Whose Show? | 3/7/1949 | See Source »

"We will now play a request for Fraülein Griselda Schmidtloser of District Wilmersdorf," said the disc jockey. But what the fraülein heard was not Buttons & Bows; like most Germans, she preferred Liszt and Brahms.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Der Unheimliche Mr. Heimlich | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

Chrysler Bows. Last week their outside competitors were busy too. Studebaker was out with new, more powerful but basically unchanged Champions and Commanders. Hudson was pushing its "step-down" idea of a body cradled in the frame. Nash was plugging its "Airflyte" design with all four wheels hidden by the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: The Forty-Niners | 1/24/1949 | See Source »

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