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Stone Cold Dead is the biggest Calypso hit since Rum & Coca-Cola (TIME, Jan. 29, 1945). It is also the first big success of 45-year-old Wilmoth Houdini, a Brooklyn-born Trinidad Negro who lives in Manhattan's Harlem half the year, the other half in Trinidad. Houdini, who has recorded 800 Calypso songs, expects to make $40,000 from...
Last month, soldiers in the U.S. zone were booked for 32 assaults, five rapes, three disorderly conducts, and one housebreaking. Cracked an MP officer: "Now that we're getting quantity supplies of Coca-Cola, maybe our boys will get back to behaving." But most G.I.s in Austria already had passing marks for behavior; and many were living up to their orientation slogan, "Soldier, you are helping Austria." The first crop of Austrian babies fathered by helpful G.I.s is sizable...
...many a Memphis business man understandably believes that insurance with Crump has a double value. Crump's 54 years in Memphis have yielded him not only power, but wealth-cotton land in Mississippi, a fine brick house, part ownership in an exclusive hunting club, major holdings in the Coca-Cola Bottling Co. of N.Y. But no man has ever disputed the old man's proudest brag: that he has never made a nickel through common political graft...
William Julius Hobbs, 42, was elected president of the Coca-Cola Co., after ten years as an RFC lawyer, only four years with Coca-Cola. Bill Hobbs left RFC's Atlanta office to reorganize Coca-Cola's musty legal department, caught the eye of Coca-Cola's Robert Winship Woodruff. From then on, Bill Hobbs fizzed up to a vice-presidency, moved to New York to head the Coca-Cola Export Co. As president, Bill Hobbs will be second only to Bob Woodruff, who was acting president, and will continue as board chairman...
Last week Moe Asch hit the market with ten albums (under the new label of Disc) which included such typically offbeat items as Trinidad Calypsos by "Lord (Rum & Coca-Cola) Invader," new "sinful" songs by the Negro ex-convict Leadbelly, a newly famed jazz trio playing Harlem blues and a Creole lullaby, Mandolinist Bess Lomax singing Careless Love ("Now my apron strings won't pin"), four French Resistance writers reading their own poems and editorials...