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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Choruses of Dixie sprung up at the drop of a northern accent. Dixie, in fact, won out over Hey-bop-a-re-bop as the most popular song of the weekend. At the football game, its initial chords elicited correct posture even in the Negro stands behind the end zone. At the pregame rally, Dixie brought every Southerner to his feet. The Cavalier football squad remained seated...
...Americans) and stood by Minister Alemán. Compelled by a Senate vote of no-confidence and Army pressure to shift Alemán from the Education Ministry, he immediately made him minister without portfolio. After all, as last week's welcome showed, Dominican freedom is still a popular cause in Cuba...
Last week Dr. George Gallup's Audience Research, Inc. (which has been studying the popular appeal of movies for about nine years) served notice that Mr. Hooper would have to move over in the radio field. Hereafter, sponsors will be supplementing their shoptalk about Hooperatings with a stunning new trade term that Dr. Gallup calls E.Q. (Enthusiasm Quotient...
Author Burke traces briefly the history of clubs, dining out, music halls, other popular and sometimes transient pastimes ("For a small fee you could be fastened by the neck in the pillory and be kissed in that position by one of the girl attendants"), and comes down hard on today's substitutes. Writing of the early 20th Century movies, he observes that "the cinematograph was then in its infancy. It has stayed there ever since." He bitterly regrets the day "the male and female crooner, or moaner, began to trouble the night air. . . . 'Craziness' in entertainment...
There are opportunities for other teams which may have hopes of winning olive wreaths and oak trees but unfortunately not too bright ones. America's major sports--football, baseball and basketball--gain rather minor positions in Olympics. Football, as the U. S. plays it, is popular in no other nation and although there has been talk of sending an exhibition team, it is unlikely. An exhibition baseball team usually travels to the Olympic games and in 1948 there may be some other nations to play it. If there are and the executive committee decides to send one, the players would...