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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years, without losing his reformer's zest, he picked political losers. Then in 1932 he organized Midwest Republican Progressives (the nearest thing to a party label he would pin on himself) for Franklin Roosevelt...
Last week Moe Asch hit the market with ten albums (under the new label of Disc) which included such typically offbeat items as Trinidad Calypsos by "Lord (Rum & Coca-Cola) Invader," new "sinful" songs by the Negro ex-convict Leadbelly, a newly famed jazz trio playing Harlem blues and a Creole lullaby, Mandolinist Bess Lomax singing Careless Love ("Now my apron strings won't pin"), four French Resistance writers reading their own poems and editorials...
...born in Warsaw, brought up in Brooklyn, schooled in Germany, once installed sound equipment in burlesque houses and Yiddish theaters on Manhattan's Lower East Side. His first recording (in 1939) was In the Beginning, his father's Bible stories for children. He released it under the label "Asch Records," then recorded Leadbelly's songs of bad men and worse women...
...Polish Workers Party (as the Polish Communists label themselves) claims 220,000 members. It still controls all key posts (police, foreign affairs, economics, foreign trade), dominates the nation's life...
Manhattan-born Abram S. Burrows, who looks like an accountant or a salesman (he has been both), worked as a Wall Street runner, a board boy, a coat label peddler until he was nearly 30. Then he sold gags to Eddie Garr, the mimic, for $125. That turned him into a radio writer. Until last summer, he wrote Duffy's Tavern...