Word: polkaing
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From A. F. H. W. offices in Philadelphia to the trade press also went free contributions of cartoons, jingles. Samples: 1) A studious-looking, bespectacled girl wearing a black brassiére, polka dot panties, ill-fitting stockings. The jingle...
...homeless men, rode back in the subway to make notes for his University of Chicago Ph.D. thesis* on a still undetermined subject. That night, dancing with Socialite Margaret McGrath, daughter of Wall Street Lawyer Francis Sims McGrath, in Rockefeller Center's swank Rainbow Room, Son David won the polka prize...
...months ago, with Band Leader Tucker's band, Vocalist Baker recorded it. So melting and cajoling were diminutive Bonnie's "Oh !s" (Chicago jitterbugs quickly changed the text to "Oh Bonnie, Oh!") that her record was soon jerking juke-box nickels faster than the fading Beer Barrel Polka (TIME, Sept. 11). Last week, with 350,000 sheet-music copies and some 350,000 records sold to date, the revived Oh Johnny, Oh Johnny, Oh! was nudging South of the Border for first place on the best-seller list. Meanwhile Band Leader Tucker and Bonnie moved into big time...
...England last week arrived the first Australian contingent, a full squadron of trained airmen-pilots, gunners, observers, mechanics. They marched ashore singing The Beer-Barrel Polka. Their commander is as handsome a fighting man as the stenographers in London's Australia House have ever seen: Wing Commander Leon Vincent Lachal, nicknamed "Stumpy" though he is tall, blue-eyed, with wavy blond hair. (A number of Australians already flying with the R. A. F. may be transferred to "Stumpy" Lachal's command...
Most U. S. song hits are made in the U. S. But last week two imported tunes were leading the U. S. field: 1) the Czech Beer Barrel Polka (550,000 copies sold to date); 2) South of the Border, a song about Mexico by two London Irishmen (Jimmy Kennedy and Michael Carr) who have never been there (over...