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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After You've Gone (Gene Krupa; Okeh). Sensational blasting by Trumpeter Roy Eldridge...
...since the Tennessee monkey trial had there been such clownish witch-hunting as went on in Georgia last week. Cigar-chewing, red-suspendered Gene Talmadge ran amok through Georgia colleges, chasing furriners (i.e. non-Georgians) and Negro-befrienders. "There was a lynching in . . . the Capitol of Georgia Monday," said the Atlanta Journal, describing the ouster of Walter Dewey Cocking as dean of University of Georgia's College of Education (TIME, July 21). At week's end the Governor had knocked out two more important Georgia educators and provoked serious retaliation...
This neat bit of doggerel by Jack Tarver (Macon Telegraph) passed from mouth to mouth in Georgia last week. But to no avail: Governor Gene Talmadge, who has taken his bounden oath to drive all foreigners* out of the Cracker State, won his first victory and expelled a "foreigner," Iowa-born Walter Cocking, dean of the College of Education at the University of Georgia. Talmadge charge: that Cocking dared to hope that white and Negro teachers might study together at a graduate school (still in the idea stage) proposed near Athens (Ga.). Ten of the State's 15 regents...
...Gene Tunney's Manhattan detective brother, Tom, floored a rebellious captive with one punch. It took 20 minutes to bring the captive to. ∙∙ Richard Whitney will run a dairy at Barnstable, Mass., when he leaves Sing Sing on parole Aug. 11. The farm belongs to the family of the ex-New York Stock Exchange president's brother's wife. ∙∙ Dizzy Dean began a new job as sports announcer for a St. Louis radio station. ∙∙ Dale Carnegie (How to Win Friends, etc.) bobbed up in a cigaret ad, telling...
Entry in the log book: "His real name is Henry." Gene Tierney's parents sued to block her signing a new movie contract, lost the case. Mrs. Tierney, interviewed, added that her daughter's recent elopement with Count Oleg Cassini, Hollywood dress designer, was "silly." Nancy Kelly, 20, onetime child star, called it quits with Actor Edmond O'Brien, 25, sued him for divorce. John Barrymore got into his umpteenth public scene, was delivered to the great outdoors by a nightclub bouncer...