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...After gossip columnists haughtily cried "Bad taste!" Ciro's nightclub in Hollywood banned Comic Peter Lind Hayes's newest skit. Hayes and his wife had been imitating President Truman and daughter Margaret. Hayes played the Missouri Waltz and pretended to sell neckties. His wife kept crying, "You're living in the past!" Said Hayes, answering his critics: "We tried it at the hardware convention in Cincinnati and they kept coming back night after night...
...first place, the U.S. is a land of such glowing opportunity that no candidate need bother to have a brain. Senator Melvin G. Ashton (William Powell) cannot even spell-but, with the help of a smart pressagent (Peter Lind Hayes) and a bit of blackmail, he very nearly makes the White House...
...done for him by a professional. There were never so many children's records to choose from. Among the new standouts: Danny Kaye's version of a children's favorite, Tubby the Tuba (Decca); a new volume in Capitol's Bozo the Clown series; Peter Lind Hayes' Genie, the Magic Record (Decca); Sterling Holloway's Uncle Remus Stories (Decca); The Little Engine That Could (Victor); Dinah Shore's Bongo (Columbia). Older kids can hear Lionel Barrymore's reading of Dickens' A Christmas Carol (MGM) or shiver to Basil Rathbone...
...British Naval Surgeon James Lind (1716-94) wondered enviously why sauerkraut-eating Dutch sailors got less scurvy than his tars on long voyages. He guessed right, recommended citrus fruits to supply what science years later called vitamin C. In 1795, Earl Spencer, First Lord of the Admiralty, ordered lemons or limes included in the daily diet on British ships. Soon British sailors and then the whole British people became known as "limeys." "Limey" bears no etymological relation to "Blimey," or to Limehouse, a London dock district named for an old lime kiln, or oast...
...little Capitol of Ohio" (it's right across High Street from the real Capitol building), also crusty with political legend. Here William Henry Harrison made his headquarters in the "Tippecanoe and Tyler Too" campaign of 1840; William McKinley lived there as governor. Other guests: Charles Dickens, Jenny Lind, Daniel Webster, Horace Greeley. The present structure, fourth on the same site, was built in 1923, has 700 rooms. It does an annual business of more than $2,000,000-which is just what Connie Hilton paid...