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...Jockey's Heartache...
Your reference [TIME, March 10] to "a disc jockey in Charlotte, N.C."-without stating his name-is causing more heartaches locally than Ted Weems's recording ever dreamed of. The disc jockey, having access to twelve million pairs of ears via the ether waves, nightly pleads for each listener to write you to put his name in TIME. . . . Unless you do something soon to stop the clamor in the local press and radio station, you may expect an express collect package to arrive in your office soon. . . . It's my radio I'm. sending...
...fortnight ago, sportsmen at South Carolina's Branchdale Jockey Club revived the ancient sport of goose pulling (TIME, March 10). Last week they found that they had ruffled far more feathers than those on the neck of the goose. Indignant letters poured into the state's newspapers. The S.P.C.A. asked that a warrant be drawn up, charging Edward O'Brien, president of the club, with cruelty to animals. O'Brien apologized: "We are as sorry as possible. . . . Nothing of this kind will ever happen again...
...disc jockey in Charlotte, N.C. reached deep into his pile of old records and played a 1932 piece called Heartaches. It had a bouncy tune and a catchy whistling chorus. Soon dozens of requests were coming in for Heartaches. Decca hurriedly began pressing copies of the old recording. In the past six weeks it has sold over 500,000 copies...
...time it hit the bookstores, it was already slightly arky. Now Lester V. Berrey and Melvin Van den Bark have provided 5,000-6,000 more terms, partly teen-age talk, partly military slang, for a new, enlarged edition. A good many of the contributions sound like a disc jockey's idea of how a real, live jazz fan talks. Samples...