Word: strummin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Someone was in the kitchen with Dinah-and Mary and Polly and all other housewives last week. It was President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, and like the song says, he was strummin' on the ol' banjo. The lyrics had a certain down-to-earth reality, but the tune-well, it was the kind usually played on that big organ at convention time. Phrased as a message to Congress, Kennedy catalogued all the complaints about modern life he could think of and then promised to fix them all up in a brave new world...
...Avon-Chalmar; M-S-M)isafallen woman (Susan Hayward) who pulls herself up from bawdyhouse to governor's mansion by her garter straps. One election year in Louisiana, she entertains a cotton-pickin', git-tar-strummin' candidate for Governor (Dean Martin), who so deeply appreciates her "campaign contribution" that he asks her to marry him. She does, and when he wins in November the scarlet woman suddenly becomes the first lady...