Word: texans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japs hit Pearl Harbor, a breezy, hand-crunching Texan named Red River Dave (Dave McEnery) wrote himself a song, The U.S.A. Is Coming P.D.Q. Next day he wrote one called Bums Over Hawaii. For months thereafter, while the fit was on him, he wrote a song a day. Sample title: Fight for Your Country, Country Boy. He has had more than 300 songs published, gets about $100 apiece for them. Red River Dave thinks they were all good...
...boss was a little man with a neat white mustache and strait-laced ideals. He hung pictures of another great Texan on every wall at the plant, drummed Davy Crockett's motto ("Be sure you're right, then go ahead") into Son E. M. ("Ted") Dealey...
Delmar, a 34-year-old damyankee who looks like Harold Lloyd, was born in Boston. He originated the Claghorn character, but Allen writes the gags. Kenny once knew a Texan who had the Senator's trick of saying a few words, then backing up like a flivver in a rut and saying them over again. For 15 years, Announcer and part-time Actor Delmar has been entertaining friends with his Claghorn act. Fred heard him and signed...
Nothing fascinates a Texan so much as 1) Texas; 2) another Texan. Thus, when news reached Austin a fortnight ago that the "Shooting Bull Detachment" of the "Texas Expeditionary Force" (both dreamed up by bored Texas flyers in Manila) had named Lone Star Governor Coke Stevenson CINCTEF, the homefolks called the whole thing mighty rich...
...state has long tried to buy the tired-out battleship Texas, which it wants to moor in the San Jacinto River as a battle memorial. But negotiations have been held up for lack of money for a mooring. Half seriously, last week, the Lone Stars were suggesting that every Texan in service be fined $1 for bragging about Texas. Thus, they figured offhand, a million dollars could be raised...