Word: bozos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shifting tides of social acceptance were charted in the 1950 edition of Manhattan's Bowery Social Register (also known as The Almanac de Skid Row), blue book of U.S. hoboes. Blue-penciled out this year by Bowery News Editor Harry Baronian: Crown Prince Bozo, for conduct unbecoming a hobo; Frisco John, for abusing people who turned him down for a handout; Buffalo John, for taking a dental bridge from the mouth of a sleeping companion. In this year: Prince Robert de Rohan Courtenay, for inventing a new poetic medium called Pling Plong; Box-Car Betty, ex-hula dancer...
...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...