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...flood of camp-meetin' melody, which had been rising steadily in juke joints and on radio programs for over a year, was swamping Tin Pan Alley. Big names in the drawling art of country and cowboy balladry like Gene Autry, the Carter Family, Roy Acuff and Al Dexter were selling on disks as never before. Top-flight songsters like Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra were making their biggest smashes with hill billy tunes. A homely earful of the purest Texas corn, Al Dexter's Pistol Packin' Mama, had edged its way to first place among the nation...
...song writing out of the hands of Tin Pan Alley's veterans. Almost any simple soul might write hillbilly words and the composition of hillbilly music has always been regarded by Tin Pan Alley as a variety of unskilled labor, Chief among the newcomers are Texas-born Al Dexter (Pistol Packin' Mama), Indiana-born Freddie Rose (Low & Lonely, I'll Reap My Harvest in Heaven), the Carter Family of Bristol, Va. (I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes), Texas-born Bob Wills (New San Antonio Rose...
...Hampshirites' early lead, the result of Dexter Wheeler's victory in the 50 yard free style was permanently erased when Don Ulen and Frank Padgett finished first and second after 100 yards of breast stroking...
...post season bowl game hinges on the outcome of today's tilt, but the undefeated Massasoits expect plenty of opposition from the Mohawks according to Duble, who sees plenty of action coming when the championship of Dexter School hangs in the balance...
...deRham, C., Jr., '46, Dunster E-33 KIR 7420 Deshon, D. P. '45, Dunster C-27 TRO 4763 Dethlefs, D. G. '46, Dunster K-41 KIR 7035 Deutsch, R. K. 1GB, Dunster I-22 KIR 5956 de Villiers, R. '46, Leverett E-31 TRO 2989 Dexter, J. B. '45, Lowell G-42 KIR 4725 Dieterich, E. J. '45, Lowell N-44 KIR 1913 Dimeff, J. '42, Kirkland C-41 KIR 1539 Dort, W. '44, Adams A-16 KIR 5783 Dowling, V. '45, Dunster C-27 TRO 4768 Drake, E. T., III, '44, Winthrop I-33 KIR 7782 Dreyfus...