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Died. William Kennon ("Hello World") Henderson, 74, onetime owner of Shreveport's radio station KWKH (formed from his own initials), who once made U.S. airways blue with his frequent harangues against chain-stores and Her bert Hoover ; of a heart attack ; in Shreveport, La. An admirer and intimate of the late Huey Long, Radioman Henderson made one of the loudest noises in early broadcasting (until depression and chain-broadcasting squeezed him out) ; as a side line sold lucky listeners his photograph and a 1-lb. can of "Hello World" coffee...
March. In New Britain, Japanese troops charged American lines, shouting "To hell with Babe Ruth!" April. In Shreveport, La., Lucille Cash, chased by her husband, cleared a seven-foot barbed-wire fence...
Spring. In Shreveport, La., Lucille Cash, chased by her husband, cleared a seven-foot barbed-wire fence...
...Governor-to-be, who carries a guitar but knows only a couple of chords, has held two other public offices. In 1938 he sang his way into a job as Shreveport's Commissioner of Public Safety. In 1942 he strummed his way into a post on the State Public Service Commission. A "shouting Baptist," he was born in northern Louisiana's hilly Jackson Parish, one of eleven children of a cotton farmer. His grandfather had a local reputation as a buck-&-wing artist. Jimmie planned to be a teacher. He graduated from Beech Springs Consolidated School...
...prospect of being a teacher forever began to depress him. He got out. He had been dreaming up ballads in his ample spare time, and for a while he sang them over Shreveport's station KWKH. In the late '30s Decca made a record of his It Makes No Difference Now, made another with Bing Crosby doing the singing, and Davis was in demand. Since then his records have sold more than a million copies, and Davis has acquired 450 acres of farmland. He calls the farming his insurance. "When a man's in the business...