Word: daves
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japs hit Pearl Harbor, a breezy, hand-crunching Texan named Red River Dave (Dave McEnery) wrote himself a song, The U.S.A. Is Coming P.D.Q. Next day he wrote one called Bums Over Hawaii. For months thereafter, while the fit was on him, he wrote a song a day. Sample title: Fight for Your Country, Country Boy. He has had more than 300 songs published, gets about $100 apiece for them. Red River Dave thinks they were all good...
...Take Care of Mother. By 11:45, when he went on the air for a broadcast, he had written 18, including Nuts to California ("You talk about your grapefruit, so full, so round, so big; they're the kind in Texas, that we feed to the pig."). Dave stopped only to take sandwiches and coffee. At 7:45 p.m.-15 minutes before the deadline-Dave finished his 52nd song. He called it It's Never Too Late to Forgive...
...squash team edged out Middlesex School Wednesday afternoon winning three out of five matches on the Linden Street courts. Dave Shepherd, Jim McKittrick, and Bob Dodson supplied wins, while Milt Heath and Charlie Mulcahey came out on the short end of their scores...
Died. Cornelius Johnson, 29, Negro high-jumper, 1936-41 co-holder (with Negro Dave Albritton) of the world's record; after a two-week bender in San Francisco. His effortless victory in the 1936 Berlin Olympics drew from a Nazi sportswriter the nettled tribute: "In blood and instinct, Johnson is still living in a state of innocence in Paradise...
...Cowen, Bill Loring, and Jerry Andrews, regular members of the Crimson team at the start of the season, are no longer available for competition. Newcomers to the squad in addition to Arnold who may see action tonight are Dave Thompson, a former Deerfield Academy player, and Andrew Henry of Brookline...