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Almost ancient now is the proposal to keep a juke box in Cowie. A spot survey showed a 100 percent willingness to "chip in" in order to keep Cowie filled with the strains of swing that greeted us on that one day. Wish someone could start the ball rolling. . . hint...

Author: By The PEARSON Twins, | Title: DOUBLE TALK | 1/9/1945 | See Source »

...Miller, 39, begoggled, popular trombonist and bandsman, leader of the Army Air Forces Band currently entertaining in Paris; while a passenger on a flight from England to Paris. Born in Clarinda, Iowa. Miller played with Ben Pollack, the Dorsey Bros., Ray Noble; in 1939 he became king of the juke boxes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 8, 1945 | 1/8/1945 | See Source »

...Indiana had a new Senator, beaming, round-faced Republican Homer Capehart, the juke-box king, who nosed out homespun Governor Henry F. Schricker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Election: The New Senate | 11/13/1944 | See Source »

Indiana. Hulking, heavy-jowled millionaire Republican Homer Capehart, who manufactures juke boxes and super-phonographs and is experimenting with television, was having trouble. His opponent for the Senate: mild, homespun Democratic Governor Henry Schricker, 61, who has eaten fried chicken in almost every church basement in Indiana. Democrat Schricker shrewdly avoids discussing Term IV in Indiana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: The 1944 Little Show | 11/6/1944 | See Source »

...Like a juke-box tune that we dare not stop. We are afraid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Farewell to Fantasy | 9/11/1944 | See Source »

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