Word: leafed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pianist Harney, who had toured the West and Midwest long before he started the craze in Manhattan, launched a nation-wide school of ragtime composers, active during the early 1900s. Prominent followers included Lucky Roberts (Pork and Beans), Scott Joplin (Maple Leaf Rag), Northrup & Confare (Cannon Ball), George Botsford (Texas Steer Rag), and Earl K. Smith (Hot Ashes). Oldtimers who heard Harney do his stuff, recall that his playing sounded very much like that of Zez Confrey (Kitten on the Keys), a little like Fats Waller...
...Others. Third ambiguity of best-seller lists is that they ignore children's books and the reprints sold in drugstores, cigar stores, newsstands. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, currently selling 5,000 copies a day, alone rings up more sales than any ten "best-sellers," and Munro Leaf's Ferdinand, at 2,000 each week, ranks with Cronin's The Citadel and Sinclair Lewis' The Prodigal Parents...
...design for a new goddess, Pacifica (see cut), which San Francisco's veteran Ralph Stackpole modeled to be the exposition's 70 ft. cynosure. But Mr. Connick remarked of Abundance, a nude male figure by David Slivka, that it looked more like a failure of the fig leaf crop; of Occident & Orient, two female nudes by Jacques Schnier, that they would be barred from burlesque; of South American Woman Grinding Corn by Cecilia Graham, that it should be called Woman Bet-Loser Shoving a Peanut With Her Nose...
...September 11, 1936, a boyish-looking ex-lightweight champion of Harvard named Munro Leaf published a 64-page children's book called Ferdinand. It was the tale of a Spanish bull that refused to fight, and Author Leaf had written it in one afternoon. Ferdinand sold only 13,736 copies the first year. Then it really began to go. By last week it had sold 90,000 copies; Author Leaf and Illustrator Robert Lawson had made about $10,000 in royalties ; Walt Disney had purchased Ferdinand for a Silly Symphony; letters were pouring in accusing Ferdinand of Red, Fascist...
...York City Children's Court. Costing about $390, the full library contains 19 fairy stories, 81 adventure tales, 85 biographies of human and animal heroes, miscellaneous books on civics, history, hobbies, religion, etiquette. The list contains such old standbys as Alice in Wonderland, such new ones as Munro Leaf's sensational best-selling Ferdinand, expurgated versions of Mother Goose and Grimm's Fairy Tales, omits such scary items as the Russian Fairy Tales, Slovenly Peter. For delinquents "above average intelligence" in the "Grades 9-12" group is included James Hilton's Goodbye, Mr. Chips. Typical title...