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Such "blue" songs are naturally not allowed on the radio networks. Last week NBC revealed that 147 songs are on its black list. Because their titles are suggestive 137 may not even be played instrumentally. Among them: Lavender Cowboy; Sweetest Little Lassie; Keep Your Skirts Down, Mary Ann; Dirty Lady; A Guy What Takes His Time; But in the Morning, No. Many another song has to be laundered before NBC will pass it. Not to be sung in Thank Your Father are the lines...
...apologize. Smoking a pipe for about 50 years has not made me forget the city of my birth. Why, I was raised on Wheeling stogies [TIME, Feb. 12, p. 16], and what could a poor boy do if it had not been for those grand old stogies-the sweetest smoke ever...
...sweetest offer was for airplanes. Said the leaflets...
...many years stocky, shock-headed Metropolitan Tenor Giovanni Martinelli nursed a secret ambition to sing Tristan, most glamorous, most gut-busting of German opera roles. But in the days when Martinelli's voice was at its sweetest, Metropolitan directors always chose a throatier Teuton for the job. Last week at the Chicago Opera, 54-year-old Veteran Martinelli finally got his chance. Playing opposite buxom Kirsten Flagstad's bosom, his white hair covered with a blond wig, Tenor Martinelli sang his part without a misplaced guttural. But between towering Soprano Flagstad and the booming orchestra led by Flagstad...
Charlie got in Shirley Temple's curls once, too. "McCarthy," said Bergen, "I want you to meet the sweetest little girl on the screen." Charlie looked down archly from his perch on Bergen's knee. "Not Jane Withers!" he chuckled...