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...scoring zone). In fact, Coach Baggett's system can be summed up in his one pet plea: "Boys, don't bother passing to anybody-just pass it at the basket." For defense, his galloping giraffes don't give a hoot. They just rely on "Long Taw" Charlie Halbert. 6 ft. 10, who hangs around their opponent's basket, bats out sure goals by simply reaching...
...fish talk" (Down in de meddy in a ITTY BITTY POO). The chorus can be sung only one way: Boop boop dittem dattem whattem Chu! The song, likely to cause reverse peristalsis in fastidious stomachs, is all about some "itty fitties" who "fam and dey fam" until they "taw a TARK!" (shark). Den dey fam back to deir poo. The publishers, wary of overplugging Three Little Fishies, withheld it from all but a few big orchestral names-Hal Kemp, Guy Lombardo, Kay Kyser, Paul Whiteman, each of whom recorded it. The song was plugged on the radio by Mildred Bailey...
...Baba Goes to Town (Twentieth Century-Fox) transports taw-eyed, prancing little Eddie Cantor to ancient Bagdad, where he physics the ailing realm of Sultan Roland Young with panaceas borrowed from the New Deal. Haroun-al-Cantor's venture into political satire is tuneful, gay, imaginatively written, generously produced. The cumulative effect of its guying would not nettle even the income tax bureau, for Funnyman Cantor pokes lightly at an array of straw...
...week in the Westchester Institute of Fine Arts at Tarrytown, N. Y. Entitled Nightmare of 1934, the work was signed Jere Miah II. The anonymous artist had great fun with a typewritten explanation of his picture that referred to mythological characters known as The Chief Mogul, Sheik Morgue En Taw, Har Rywa Llace, Sir Huge Onson, and Old Egghead...
...revised and many liberal increases made no longer ago than 1920. Every survivor of the Civil War draws $50 per month and those in need of regular aid and at tendance, which already included 41,000 of them, draw $72 per month. As others come to need this the Taw already gives it to them. The act also proposes to extend the limits of the war period from April 13, 1865, to Aug. 20, 1866, so that those who enlisted during this year and four months of peace now become eligible for the same treatment as those who fought throughout...