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George Michael Cohan has written more than 500 songs. He thinks "Venus, My Shining Star" (1894) is his best, but the U. S. public still prefers "Over There" (1917). Last week George M. Cohan turned out another song, for a huge benefit for German-Jewish refugees from Nazidom, held in Manhattan's Yankee Stadium. The affair was called "Night of Stars" and so was Mr. Cohan's song...
...citizens of North Brookfield Mass staged a homecoming celebration for two native sons," Cornelius McGillicuddy ( Connie Mack") (born in East Brookfield) and George Michael Cohan (born in Providence, R. I.). Said Baseball Manager McGillicuddy, after the local semiprofessional team beat his Philadelphia Athletics 9-5 : "Nothing would please me better than to spend the rest of the summer here?the way my team is going." Said Actor Cohan: "To show I'm a typical New Englander I'm going to have apple pie for breakfast...
...entered the War George Cohan started writing topical songs. He sat down at the piano, fumbled around with the F sharp chords† and in no time "Over There" was ready for Nora Bayes to sing and 4,000,000 soldiers to march to. "Over There" sold 3,000,000 copies, became musical history. Woodrow Wilson sent Cohan an autographed photograph while his secretary, Joseph Patrick Tumulty, wrote a letter: "The President considers your War song a genuine inspiration to all American manhood...
Presidents held a new interest for Cohan after that. For the George Washington Bicentennial he wrote "Father of the Land We Love," went to the White House and presented Herbert Hoover with the first copy (TIME, Aug. 10, 1931). Three years ago he wrote for the Edison Golden Jubilee a song that was never published. Called "Thomas A. Edison, Miracle Man," it starts...
...Composer Cohan, who is now acting in Eugene O'Neill's Ah Wilderness!, calls his Roosevelt birthday song just a "howdy" to the President. Its chorus...