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Equally so is your reference to the songs selected as representative by the American delegation. "So Long," as I specified, was not the popular song, but the Dust Bowl song, ending with "This dusty old dust is a-gettin' my home, I've got to be moving along." The other songs were "I'm Gonna Put My Name Down" (for the Stockholm appeal), We Shall Not Be Moved, Joe Hill (labor songs), Goodnight Irene (which was hummed), and the Negro National Anthem...
...Venice, innocently but enthusiastically helping the last of the Borgias bottle the last of the Borgia poison. With typical Capp satire, Li'l Abner named the concoction "Peppi-Borgia," and Mammy Yokum had a wonderful idea: "We'll give it a rootin', tootin', go-gettin' American ad-vertisin' campaign...
...when United Features took a second look at the "go-gettin"' slogans ("Peppi-Borgia hits the spot, puts you 6 feet deep and that's a lot"; "the Pause that Petrifies"), it got cold feet. The slogans obviously splashed close to Coca-Cola and closer to Pepsi-Cola. Although the strips had already been mailed out to Li'l Abner's 700 subscribers, United sent a hurried order to rout out the "Peppi," leave a blank before "Borgia." Most newspapers...
...Rough Riders. The Murderous Ax, as he is known in his sporting circles, cares little about show business. He trails along patiently in his wife's ascending orbit, watching her diet, cooking her meals, patiently picking up her clothes. As for her career, "the kid's gettin' what she wants," says the Ax. "I don't mind...
Frankie, in his usual knit tie and sharp suit, was there to receive a plaque from Mercury Records for selling 5,000,000 of their platters.* His cooey "gettin' kinda lonesome" style ("It feels good coming out that way") had come to him as naturally as a good night's sleep. But it had not always come that easily to his listeners...