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...little man shaped like a cigar stub played a few bars on the piano, trying out his tune on his new partner. Lyricist Sammy Cahn, who used to play fiddle in a burlesque house, grunted: "It seems to me I've heard that song before." Before Tunesmith Jule Styne could think of something nasty to reply, Sammy Cahn said hastily: "I mean it's a good title -I've Heard That Song Before." According to Messrs. Styne & Cahn, this is how the title to their first hit was born. Since then most of their major decisions...
...Jule wrote the music two years ago; but Sammy had been fighting the lyrics...
High Button Shoes (book by Stephen Longstreet; music & lyrics by Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn; produced by Monte Proser and Joseph Kipness) isn't a specially good show, but it's pretty often a gay one. A period musical (1913), it spins an amiably undisciplined yarn about a con man and his stooge (Phil Silvers and Joey Faye) who sell waterlogged real estate in New Brunswick, N.J., flee to Atlantic City, sneak back for a Rutgers-Princeton game, at the end are earnestly seeking fresh frauds and pitches...
...onetime Army Air Forces chaplain, now. back in his pastorate, last week told his parishioners how a year in the Army had changed his thinking. Wrote the Rev. Jule Ayers, 33, in a letter to the 850 members of Wilkes-Barre, Pa.'s First Presbyterian Church...
Banned from North Carolina schools last week was a fifth-grade history (Jule B. Warren's North Carolina Yesterday and Today) adopted last winter by ex-Governor Clyde R. Hoey's administration and recently denounced by scholars (TIME, April 28). An investigator appointed by Governor J. M. Broughton found more than 1,000 factual errors in the book...