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...Plugger. In Tacoma, David C. Montgomery shot himself in the head with his rifle, reloaded, shot himself in the chest, reloaded, shot himself in the forehead. At the hospital he was expected to recover...
Died. Alva Blanchard Adams, 66, Senator from Colorado; of a heart attack; in Washington. Plugger for Government economy, he was the son of one thrift-minded Governor of Colorado in the '80s (Alva Adams), nephew of another Colorado Governor (William...
...song of the white-collar man called from his office to bear the burdens of Democracy" (according to its lyricist) was last week plugged in Los Angeles by Major Alberto E. Merrill, U.S. Army, and four recruiting sergeants. The Army has been plagued by many a song-plugger and press agent, but A Grand Vacation With Pay is the first recruiting song to command official sanction. Its authors are L. Wolfe Gilbert and Jimmy McHugh (Waiting For the Robert E. Lee, I Can't Give You Anything But Love and Ramona...
When Berlin first presented the song to Kate Smith, Manager Collins had the tune set to a martial rhythm, advised Plugger Smith to give it the works. Soon, God Bless America began to go to town, was widely heralded as a new national anthem. Forthwith it was suggested that the song be rendered as a hymn. After Collins had tried it out to a pious beat, he hastily returned to the original arrangement when complaints poured...
...Boys. Far from the workaday radio world of Mexico City are the med ical and moral border blasters who shove their way into the U. S. firmament from roaring stations on the Mexican border: Dr. John Richard Brinkley, the goat-gland wizard and Astrologer Rose Dawn, a bouncy blonde plugger for everything from perfume to religious tomes, who use the 180,000 watts of station XERA at Villa Acufia; until recently Norman Baker who used 50,000-watt station XENT, near Nuevo Laredo until the U. S. Government convicted him for using the mails to de fraud...