Word: plowboy
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Triumphant Discussion. At Neosho, Mo., he couldn't resist giving the home folks a triumphant discussion of his travels. "I started out at Des Moines, at a plowing contest," said ex-Plowboy Harry Truman, "and there were just about ten acres of people in front of the stand where I spoke ... I went to Denver and there were 100,000 people . . . went on down the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad and over to Salt Lake City...
Last week, Eddy, who calls himself the Tennessee Plowboy, was in Manhattan, the one place in the U.S. where he doesn't seem to be a big hit. Says he: "Dawgonnit, this is the only place my records don't sell." But elsewhere, Eddy's records were selling fast enough for RCA Victor to rush out a few more before Petrillo puts a stop to it (see above...
...toured the U.S., making personal appearances (for as high as $5,000), plugging his own records. He is a regular on NBC's Grand Ole Opry, now has his own five-day-a-week transcription programs. In Manhattan a reporter asked him whether he really had been a plowboy. Said he: "Boy, I sure did plow. That's why I wanted to learn to play that guitar, so I wouldn't have to keep plowin' all my life...
...course, no matter where she was employed, any plowboy might have fathered Hitler's grandmother's son. But Thyssen says that Hitler's spies told him of the existence of the document, that it was probably a factor in Dollfuss' assassination, that Hitler later wrested it from Schuschnigg. Thyssen also heard that a copy of it was "in the hands of the British Secret Service...