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...most popular songs on the Rocky Mountain air for the past fortnight has been a jingly little piece that Disk Jockey Ronnie McCoy of Denver's KFEL calls Tout Contraire. It sounds something like a Slavic folk tune sung by a crooner with the hiccups. McCoy describes it as a "new foreign import." Listeners, trying to identify it, have variously guessed it to be French, German, Russian...
Horace B. McCoy, assistant administrator of the N.P.A., said he expected reasonably quick removal of controls on strategic materials. Jeb Halaby, assistant to the Administrator of European Recovery Administration found. "Our Western European allies have priceless resources and capabilities with which we should combine ours for mutual security. We as well as our partners must do more. It will be costly and require sacrifice ... but it's worth...
...around the table in Atlanta were men accustomed to making news decisions for some of the South's best newspapers. From North Carolina, for instance, came Jack Riley, recently Sunday editor of the Raleigh News and Observer and now journalism professor at the University of North Carolina; George McCoy, managing editor of the Asheville Citizen; Henry Coble, telegraph editor for the Greensboro News; and LeGette Blythe, onetime college pal of the late Thomas Wolfe and former Charlotte newspaperman. Blythe has just published his sixth book, a Biblical novel entitled Tear for Judas. He took time off from the convention...
...Abner for months. He read the diaries of Cotton Mather and those of a Civil War housewife in Montgomery, Ala. He consulted scholars and experts, from H. L. (The American Language") Mencken down to a lifer in a federal prison who told him about the real McCoy (from the real Macao-the uncut heroin smuggled in from the Portuguese island colony of Macao...
Love Story. In Miami, Harold E.Adkins, charged with stealing $40 from Lilly McCoy, won a dismissal when he announced: "We're married. We fell in love while she was trying to get me to return the money...