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...Bozo. When it was all over, Conductor Monteux admitted the tombola had been fun, "but not musique sérieuse." He was already thinking about the Beethoven cycle he will conduct next month: "Now that is sérieux, but not so sérieux as to frighten. Beethoven is not a bore...
Says wife Doris: "It amuses Pierre to see younger conductors eye him appraisingly, saying to themselves, 'When is that old bozo going to give up?' But, he says, 'I shall conduct till I'm 90. I shall die holding a baton.' " Says Pierre: "I didn't say 90. I said...
...pocket can have the reading done for him by a professional. There were never so many children's records to choose from. Among the new standouts: Danny Kaye's version of a children's favorite, Tubby the Tuba (Decca); a new volume in Capitol's Bozo the Clown series; Peter Lind Hayes' Genie, the Magic Record (Decca); Sterling Holloway's Uncle Remus Stories (Decca); The Little Engine That Could (Victor); Dinah Shore's Bongo (Columbia). Older kids can hear Lionel Barrymore's reading of Dickens' A Christmas Carol (MGM) or shiver...
...makers mix propaganda for democracy and education (a selling point to parents) with their music. Decca's Churkendoose ("it was neither a turkey, a chicken, a duck nor a goose") with Comedian-Dancer Ray Bolger is a broad plea for racial tolerance. Capitol Records bound books inside its Bozo the Clown albums so that children could follow the narrative of Bozo's travels, get a rudimentary idea of geography. Bozo's sales: 1,000,000. Most of the companies are dead serious about their job as molders of the young mind. When a Columbia Records survey showed...
What about the court injunction? Old Bozo Damich had part of the answer: "You can't give a court order to make a man think the way you want him to think...