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Last week Elliot Lawrence's fast-climbing band* played for the homecoming dance at the University of Michigan's Intramural Building. About 700 of the 3,400 students who showed up hovered admiringly around the bandstand all evening while Lawrence played schmalzy ballads like Buttermilk Sky and To Each His Own. Lawrence's autumn schedule covers nine universities, including such profitable dates as Minnesota, Iowa and Nebraska. His nearest competitor-Veteran jazzman Tommy Dorsey's orchestra-has five big college dates...
Cline liked company; but his company usually died suddenly in a hotel room shortly after signing her estate over to him. He liked efficiency. He almost always took his company on pleasure trips, then asked her to drink a glass of buttermilk. When she died, he had her body cremated before police could' examine...
Next to company and efficiency, he liked forgery. This had cost him two prison terms and an arrest last December. Digging into his secretive past, police found at least eight instances in which Forger Cline's buttermilk-drinking friends had died, leaving him legacies totaling $82,000. They also found that he left one of the coldest trails south of the Yukon...
Miss Edna shut him up with a front-page editorial headed "Buttermilk Bennett." Last fortnight Brooks County, of which Quitman is the county seat, was at last persuaded: it passed a law requiring cattle to be fenced. Said Editor Daniel, in quiet triumph: "The farmers are boycotting us now, but they'll get over it." Despite this thumping victory, Miss Edna could not afford to relax. For months she has watched the draft creep up on 50% of her composing-room staff, healthy Frank Ramew, 26 (Frank's father, J. H., is the staff's other half...
...Some Phelps hates: musical comedies, buttermilk, the novels of James T. Farrell, paint on young faces, simplified spelling...