Word: pauls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Saxie Dowell is a great big fat man with a little mustache, like Paul Whiteman's. He sang duets with his mother in a North Carolina church choir when he was eight. At the University of North Carolina he played a saxophone, was one of the first members of Hal Kemp's college dance orchestra. Still with the same band, and now its chief comic, Saxie Dowell recently heard, in the South, an old nursery tune called Down in de Meddy. He thought it mighty cute...
...stomachs, is all about some "itty fitties" who "fam and dey fam" until they "taw a TARK!" (shark). Den dey fam back to deir poo. The publishers, wary of overplugging Three Little Fishies, withheld it from all but a few big orchestral names-Hal Kemp, Guy Lombardo, Kay Kyser, Paul Whiteman, each of whom recorded it. The song was plugged on the radio by Mildred Bailey, Fannie Brice, Judy Starr. Along with the itty fitties, fat Saxie Dowell fam into such fame that he is now thinking of leaving Hal Kemp and starting a band...
Inspired by a tract called "The First Dancing Lesson" (Leander Smith, 808 Avenue E., Council Bluffs, Iowa), and grged on by what they described as the "moral degeneracy" of the examination period, Clarence L. Alexander '40 Paul J. Goldheizer '40, and Joseph W. Barber '40, have begun an intensive campaign...
Shrewdly sidestepping such grave internal problems as the peasants' demands for partitioning the big estates, what to do with Hungary's Jews, Premier Count Paul Teleki last week asked Hungarians to vote confidence in his foreign policy of close but wary association with the Axis by keeping his Government Party in power. In Hungary's first secret ballot since 1920 they did. Result: for the Government Party 180 out of 260 seats. But this Hungarian rhapsody ended when returns showed that the five Hungarian Nazi parties had increased their seats from 14 to 39 and their total...
...Paul Muni, Bette Davis, Brian Aherne; TIME...