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...Post exposé was the work of John P. Cahn, a 33-year-old San Francisco free-lance writer who first tried to debunk Newton and Dr. Gee for the San Francisco Chronicle. He became suspicious when he got his hands on the rare, "unmeltable" metal which they claimed came from one of the flying saucers. It turned out to be nothing but pot & pan aluminum. Cahn could not get the complete proof against the men that the Chronicle wanted. But True Magazine, which once stated that flying-saucers "are real," last month ran a Cahn article questioning Newton...
...Londoners' biggest shock was the discovery that most New York drivers operate one-man buses, take tickets, give transfers and dole out change. Said London with some justice: "I cahn't see 'ow 'e can attend to 'is proper job if 'e 'as to do sums...
...rampages with the embarrassing insistence of a pugnacious drunk whom no one quite dares to lead to the door. For its best moments, The West Point Story depends on talented Dancer Gene Nelson and the pleasant voices of Gordon MacRae and Doris Day in some tuneful Jule Styne-Sammy Cahn songs. As Cagney's girl friend, who all but joins the corps herself, Virginia Mayo fills her tights admirably...
Walk Together. Messrs. Styne & Cahn are, after Rodgers & Hammerstein, perhaps the most successful songwriting team on Tin Pan Alley. In the seven years they have been partners, they have writ ten 150 songs together, sold 6,000,000 copies of sheet music, made the hit parade two dozen times and first place nine times (among their hits: I'll Walk Alone; It's Been a Long, Long Time; Give Me Five Minutes More.) They earn $150,000 a year. Jule, who was born in London 42 years ago, was a piano prodigy who was guest soloist with...
...little man shaped like a cigar stub played a few bars on the piano, trying out his tune on his new partner. Lyricist Sammy Cahn, who used to play fiddle in a burlesque house, grunted: "It seems to me I've heard that song before." Before Tunesmith Jule Styne could think of something nasty to reply, Sammy Cahn said hastily: "I mean it's a good title -I've Heard That Song Before." According to Messrs. Styne & Cahn, this is how the title to their first hit was born. Since then most of their major decisions...