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...insure the success of their first show, Carrollton businessmen had gone over to Lexington to fetch grey-thatched, handsome old James T. Looney, best brewer of burgoo stew in northern Kentucky. Over his open air vats, "Burgoomaster" Looney, proud of his 500-gal. iron kettle that was used in the Civil War to make gunpowder, had spent a day and a night brewing 1,500 gallons of burgoo.* Every last dipperful was exhausted before the crowd settled down to a program of speechmaking. On the platform, along with many another bigwig, were Carrollton's Ralph Malcolm Barker, president...
...Burgoomaster" Looney's recipe for 1,000 pal. of burgoo: 800 lb. lean beef with no bones; 200 lb. fat hens; 900 lb. canned tomatoes; 240 lb. canned carrots; 180 lb. canned corn; 200 lb. cabbage; 60 lb. salt; 4 lb. pepper; "my own seasoning." Cook 18 to 20 hr. in iron kettle out of doors over a wood fire. "It is thicker than soup and has a flavor from the open air you can't describe...
...hall. First student to register was one Frank Norman of Minden, La. Student Norman explained last week that the reason he has chosen the Ringling School of Art to complete his education was that he knew and admired certain members of the faculty, Professor Verman Kimbrough and a Mr. Looney...
...WHOS LOONEY...
...band or play violin solos; his ingenuity is limitless; he never fails. Best of Mickey Mouse competitors is Koko the Clown, of Fleischer Bros.' Out-of-the-Inkwell Series. Others: Paul Terry's Aesop's Fables, Charles Mintz's Krazy Kat, War ner Bros.' Looney Tunes...