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...spot commercials are either obnoxious or vapid. Chiquita Banana, sung to a catchy, Calypso-style tune, is so different that listeners actually like it. Last week, after more than eight months on the air, it had become the undisputed No. i on the jingle-jangle hit parade. Its composers, Garth Montgomery and Len Mackenzie (of Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn), not unmindful of the famed banana smash of the early 1920s, decided to doll up their lyrics, and give them a try as a popular song...
Appointment of Hugo Black to the U. S. Supreme Court turned Garth into a fascist. When the fascists murdered Comrade Adeline, Garth became a New Dealer again. Back in Tennessee Valley, he got a job with the TVA, set up housekeeping with his childhood sweetheart in one of TVA's model subdivisions, found his final faith in the hope that "all the forces for good [are] marshaled under one banner...
...Garth Lafavor of Garth's Island, 150-year-old Tennessee Valley plantation, started off by believing in the eternal rightness of Garth's Island. Its 3,000 acres supported 20 Garth families of various blood relationships, and 52 families of Garth sharecroppers...
...discovered the New Deal when the Civil Works Administration "kidnapped" some of the poorer and lazier Garth Negroes and put them on relief. Later he saw his way of life disappear forever when the Tennessee Valley Authority forced the Garths to sell out, made the plantation a lake behind one of the TVA's dams...
Five years on a Birmingham newspaper left Garth with a weird jumble of contemporary catchwords. For a while he was a New Dealer himself. He dallied with the Birmingham Reds (especially with Millionaire Comrade Adeline Reed, who had revolutionary and biological fervor. He turned against them after watching their tactics in a steel strike...