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Behind his Harold Lloyd glasses, Willson still looks much like the round-eyed boy wonder who packed up his flute at twelve and left Mason City for New York and a career as a versatile but erratic musician. At 19 he was good enough to play with John Philip Sousa, at 22 was playing under Toscanini with the New York Philharmonic. In 1929 he defected to radio, for the next two decades whipped up foamy musical souffles and sprightly chatter for such shows as Maxwell House Coffee Time, The Big Show. Along the way, he tried his hand at anything...
Stoppered. In Rio de Janeiro, arrested for practicing medicine without a license, Window Washer Alves de Sousa explained: "I stole so many drugs from hospitals where I worked that I was compelled to open a medical office in order to sell them to my patients before they spoiled...
...Knew Sousa...
Your April 16 article on the Washington Post refers to that paper as "celebrated in song by John Philip Sousa's march bearing its name." For years Sousa led the famous U.S. Marine Corps band quartered at Marine headquarters, Washington, D.C. - long known as the Washington post of the Marine Corps. I therefore contend that this martial air of Sousa's is the "Washington Post March" and not that of the Washington Post...
...Washington Post sponsored an essay contest for public school students and invited John Philip Sousa to compose a march for the prize-awarding day when some 22,000 children turned out for the great event (held on the Smithsonian grounds). There the Marine band, as the Post later reported, "played a stirring march composed by Professor Sousa dedicated to the Washington Post...