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...FLOY G. APPLEGATE...
Your article captioned issue of "Sousa with a Floy Floy" in the Sept. 6 issue of TIME has been bothering me ever since I read it, and my distress was fortified by the letters commenting on the article which you published in TIME'S Sept. 27 issue. I decided (in the interests of Lux et Veritas) to do a bit of personal investigation. . . . Circumstances favored me in this quest because...
...Floy Floy...
...grateful to Mr. Lamale of Wabash, Ind. for clearing up the Floy Floy business. Imagine trying to sleep in an overnight cabin with a community house 20 ft. in back of you where dancing went on from seven to twelve with music from a victrola and 15 records, one of them Flat Foot Floogie. The words from that distance sounded as if somebody were trying to put Flat Foot Susie on the Sidewalk or Coffee Pot or something!;. Spending most of the night wondering if they'd get her there, imagine my confusion in the morning to learn...
...quickly trampled to bits. Only those near the orchestra platforms could hear any music, and a competition among the 50 amateur bands was called off. No one minded. The young jitterbugs danced to their own mouth organs and to 10? saxophones, to no music at all, voicing the appalling floy floys, shim shams and swizzle-swipes which are the lingo of swing. Four hundred extra policemen marveled that no one was hurt. It was, in the words of Chicago Daily Newsman Gene Morgan, "the strangest manifestation of youthful exuberance perhaps ever witnessed since the Middle Ages' ill-fated Children...