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Before evacuating Moulmeingyun, Bo Moe Kyi sought out Thakin Nu's aging father, U Aung Nyein. "So you are the father of that 'rosary man' [psalm-shouter]," she said. "Please don't be frightened, sir, we give Thakin Nu our due respect, but there is nothing strange in Communists seizing from the government. As you see, we have taken 300 guns and 60,000 rupees, and now we'll leave. That is all, dear great uncle...
Evidently the plan was not effective, for, to the majority of the unfortunate pedestrians, the only good thing about the megaphone-shouter-througher was his resemblance to Dick Harlow. Outside of this, the idea of a megaphone shouter-througher seems to have been thrown for a long loss...
...lured Julia to Hollywood to record twelve more sides. She took her drummer, Baby Lovett, along, and on the way out they wrote a suggestive tune called Gotta Gimme Watcha Got, which sold out immediately. Some jazz critics boldly compared 44-year-old Julia Lee with the greatest blues shouter of them all, the late Bessie Smith...
Almost everybody except the candidates and the P.A.C. was bored with Alabama's primary campaign. One candidate afforded a spark of interest and amusement. He was 37-year-old James Elisha ("Big Jim") Folsom, a 6 ft. 8 in. shouter of tall promises, who campaigned for the governorship with a five-piece hillbilly band, a mop and a bucket ("to clean up the State Capitol"), and P.A.C.'s blessing. He had run for various offices four times, had been elected only once-to be a delegate to the 1944 Democratic National Convention (where he plunked for Henry Wallace...
...Tanguay, at 65, was back in the news in Los Angeles. The arm-throwing, hair-shaking shouter, whose I Don't Care made her one of vaudeville's biggest stars in her youth, had periodically been reported near death during the last ten years. Last week she charged that Elza Schallert, a writer at work on her biography, refused to give back her autobiographical notes. Eva wanted the notes...