Word: daves
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...comeback. David Reed recently an nounced that, while he was dead against New Deal methods, he could see some good in New Deal objectives. To Boss Pew and associated fat cats who run the G. O. P. in Pennsylvania, this sounded alarmingly like rank liberalism. So they bundled Dave Reed back on to his shelf, chose safe and soundless Jay Cooke IV to go up against Democratic Senator Joe Guffey next November...
...Rawstrom is worth no more than a pair of seconds behind Eric Cutler in the 220 and 440--and Frannie Powers will be very close to Cutler in the 220. Crimson sprinters Cutler, Jim Curwen, Dave Stearns, and Lonnie Stowell should have little difficulty with Beck and Lotz...
Supporting Uncle Dave in the Grand Ol' Opry Company are a half-dozen ensembles with sour-mash names like Fruit Jar Drinkers, Possum Hunters, Gully Jumpers, Roy Acuff and his Smoky Mountain Boys. Grand Ol' Opry is no ordinary hillbilly show. It is opportunity night for all the balladeers, jug players, mouth-organists, fiddlers, washboard knucklers, accordionists, comb-hummers, etc. It is a weekly fiesta, Southern style, for hill folk from the Great Smokies, croppers, tourists...
Edith stood up with Roy Acuff, Uncle Dave, the Fruit Jar Drinkers, etc. and in a mountain-dewy voice sang The Broken Heart...
...hand Edith got for this Smoky plaint was roughly comparable, in Grand O1' Opry circles, to the way Lily Pons was welcomed to the Metropolitan. Right off, Edith was invited to join the Opry company. And Uncle Dave, Roy Acuff and the rest were pretty sure that The Broken Heart, properly whanged up, would be a juke-box hit in no time...