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...Many of the brokers chew gum to keep their throats moist. The throat is important here. When you want to buy or sell, you have to be able to attract attention. Another flurry starts. 'Sell one Sep fifteen. . . . Sell five Christmas. . . . Sell July one five, think of wife and kids.' Then suddenly the noise fades out, the waving of fingers stops...
...following the founding of the first U. S. university (Harvard, 1636) the education of young women was left to the "female" institutions whose courses were comparable to those offered by academic and secondary schools today. Higher education was not for women. Neither was co-education until Oberlin College, on Sep. 6, 1837, admitted four women for a regular college course...
...issue of TIME, May 24, contains a review of Charles Eugene Claghorn's The Mocking Bird in which credit for writing the song, Listen to the Mocking Bird, is given to the late Septimus Winner. The review does go on to state that "Sep" got the idea for his most famous song from "Whistling Dick," a Negro beggar who used to strum his guitar and whistle like a bird...
...Sep" got the idea for his most famous song from "Whistling Dick," a Negro beggar who used to strum his guitar and whistle like a bird. But shortly after it was published in 1855 Winner sold his copyright on Listen to the Mocking Bird for $5. Lee & Walker, the purchasers, made a fortune. The song sold over 20,000,000 copies, was a favorite of Edward VII as a boy. Lincoln said: "It is as sincere and sweet as the laughter of a little girl at play." Many an ante-bellum baby was named after Hally, the fictitious girl over...
...Ones and The Detacher's Dog ("Oh where! Oh where! ish mine little dog gone?"). During the Civil War another song almost undid him. Lincoln removed General McClellan from command of the Army of the Potomac for being over cautious. Popular sentiment favored McClellan's reinstatement, caused "Sep" Winner to write Give Us Back Our Old Commander: Little Mac, the People's Pride. Copies of the song were confiscated; Winner was almost jailed for treason, but the song swept through the whole Union Army. In spite of the interdict, Julia Mortimer sang it in Ford...