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...pleasure of breaking it to bits." If there was any truth in the hypothesis, a great many U.S. citizens were smashing up Bob Merrill's own records last week. One lightweight little number, If I Knew You Were Comin' I'd 've Baked a Cake, has topped the hit parade three weeks in a row, with record sales passing the 1,000,000 mark...
...cooking up a song. Several years ago he began filling notebooks with catch phrases, slang and cliches ("Cliches make the best songs; I put down every one I can find"). Last April, with three notebooks full, he went to Veteran Songwriter Al (Mairzy Doats) Hoffman, who chose Baked a Cake as the most promising title, helped Merrill whip up the words & music in a couple of hours. The lyrics asked very little of the U.S. mind. Sample...
Though the material is unabashedly artificial and sentimental, Riding High is still probably the most shrewdly effective show ever put together about horse racing. It is a smooth combination of comedy and pathos, romance and excitement, plus some pleasant Crosby crooning (notably, Let's Bake a Sunshine Cake). Like all Capra pictures, it is also calculated to delight the largest possible audience by taking potshots at the greedy and the pompous, while letting the meek inherit the earth...
...getting. Like President Harry Truman-who gathered his family together at the Little White House at Key West last week and answered questions by Canadian-born Mrs. Eileen Nolte, a Navy petty officer's wife-most invited the census takers inside and, in many cases, offered them coffee, cake, or a slug of bourbon...
When the big day came, Capac turned out to do honor to Noble Hunter, founder, editor & publisher of the Journal and Capac's first citizen. On their way for coffee & cake at the Hunter home, Capac's second citizens traveled over good roads and passed a $125,000 high school, the results of Hunter's editorial campaigning...