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Bardstown believes that Stephen Foster drew inspiration for famed "My Old Kentucky Home" from "Federal Hill." Some Kentuckians further claim he actually composed it on the spot, during a visit in 1852. John Tasker Howard, Foster's latest, most authoritative biographer (Stephen Foster, America's Troubadour: TIME, Jan. 22, 1933) doubts the story. He thinks it unlikely that Stephen Foster visited Bardstown later than the 1840's, points out that the original title of the song was "Poor Uncle Tom, Good Night," that "Uncle Tom" was the song's hero, not ''My Old Kentucky...
Walter Haigh, son of an old employe of an old established textile firm, was a little too ambitious and enthusiastic for his own good. Foxy Leonard Tasker, an expert not only in manufacturing but in juggling a balance sheet, thought Walter would make a hard-working cat's-paw. With no trouble he lured Walter away from his job, set him up as figurehead of one of his own mills. For a while Walter thought he was being very successful. His quick rise brought him up the necessary social notches that separated him from the girl of his dreams...
STEPHEN FOSTER, AMERICA'S TROUBADOUR-John Tasker Howard-Crowell ($3.50). In a 70-year-old ledger in Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital can be found the record of the death of Stephen Foster. The No. 1 U. S. songwriter, thin and wasted at 37, had fallen in his Bowery rooming-house, cut his throat, bashed his forehead. News papers took scant notice of the passing of the man who wrote "Old Folks at Home," "Massa's in de Cold Ground," "Nelly Ely," "Oh! Susanna," "Old Black Joe," "My Old Kentucky Home." Author John Tasker Howard, an expert...
POWYS (T.F.) Mr. Tasker's Gods...
...Army was (and is always) vested in the Chief of Staff at Washington under whom General Pershing served as a subordinate in charge only of the A. E. F. During the 19 months of U. S. war four generals in succession were Chief of Staff-Hugh Lenox Scott, Tasker Howard Bliss, John Biddle and Peyton Conway March, General March, long, lean, bearded son of a college professor, took command in March 1918 and carried the Army through the Armistice. Last week appeared his The Nation at War* to take its place beside General Pershing's Pulitzer-prize-winning...