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...that some of the heads were creating $50,000 worth of songs a year. Again Billy got the jump on the competition, analyzed every novelty song of the day. All of them, he decided, had a silly syllable, and of all the syllables, the sound of oo was the silliest. Rose went to work and produced Barney Google, "with the goo-goo-googly eyes." The song was a hit, whereupon Billy shortened his name to Rose and lengthened his list of melodies: Without a Song, More Than You Know, That Old Gang of Mine, It's Only a Paper...
...fairy story more magical than any he wrote. Beneath the Odense River, he knew, lay China, a fantasy kingdom that surfaces in Andersen's The Nightingale. His father let him dream. "No matter what the boy wants to be," he told his wife, "if it is the silliest thing in the world, let him have his own way." At 14, and gangly as a stork, Hans Christian stowed his toy theater, a loaf of bread and 13 rigsdaler into his knapsack and went to Copenhagen...
...invited TV Newscaster David Brinkley to speak his mind about the newspaper business. If they expected a kick in the shins, the editors were surprised by a pleasant pat on the back. Reporters, said Brinkley, are always asking him whether TV will ever replace the newspaper. "That is the silliest thing I ever heard of," he said. "Most of the news in the papers we cannot cover and we never will be able to. When it comes to covering news in any kind of detailed way, we are just almost not in the ball game...
...must have. By week's end he had tied Nicklaus for the top prize in the Jacksonville Open pro-amateur, picking up another $462.50. And he did it all with the silliest swing in golf. Sanders stands stiff-legged, brings his club back such a short way that other pros say he "could swing in a telephone booth." With Jack Nicklaus still looking for his first victory of the year, Gary Player trying to commute from South Africa, and Arnie Palmer semiretired from the tour-he has played in only five of ten tournaments-Sanders sees no reason...
...Racial guilt phobia is the silliest concept since original sin. Southerners abuse Negroes because we all have to have someone to look down on, and for a redneck with no hound-dog, that ain't easy...