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...watered-down, scrubbed-up version, tailored to Tin Pan Alley standards, Rum & Coca-Cola was plugged at Manhattan's Paramount Theater by a blond singer named Jeri Sullavan. It quickly became the biggest selling calypso song in history. Last week the Pepsi-Cola Co. was reportedly urging Rum & Coca-Cola's Manhattan publishers and Decca's Jack Kapp to make recordings with "coca" changed to "pepsi...
...Always, everywhere we went, there were refugees. Some strode with determined gait back to their little villages, hugging the mountainsides, their belongings on their backs. Others, little family clusters, carried tin-tubfuls of crockery, clothes and fine old tablecloths filled with ragged effects. One group we saw trying to cross the river at Marcourt were slipping and sliding down the broken wooden girders of the dynamited bridges into the icy water and wading across. In this family there was a girl of ten crying bitterly. She wore a thin red cotton sweater with a thin cotton dress underneath...
Sing Out, Sweet Land! (book by Walter Kerr; produced by the Theater Guild) is a songbook history of American life. Combining folk music with Tin Pan Alley tunes, it warbles its way across the centuries-the voice of a canoeman floating down the Ohio, a chorus raised in an Illinois clearing, a medley of tunes on a Mississippi steamboat, a soldiers' rouse round a Civil War campfire, the guttural throb of Negro blues, the frilly ditties of the Gay Nineties, the brash rhythms of speakeasy jazz...
...when people were doing passementerie, he handled fringe," Billy made the high-school track team by learning to jump the gun without detection, became a shorthand whiz and stenographer for Barney Baruch ("Baruch is still the only idol in my book"). But he aimed far higher, precipitantly invaded Tin Pan Alley. There, writing the lyrics for such song hits as Barney Google, Million Dollar Baby, Rainbow Round My Shoulder, he was soon making as much as $60,000 a year...
...From Tin Pan Alley to Broadway was an easy right turn and ft om there Rose went on to operating all over the map: in Manhattan with a succession of nightclubs (Casino de Paree, Casa Mañana, the still flourishing Diamond Horseshoe), at the Centennial Fair in Fort Worth (at a wage of $1,000 a day, at San Francisco's, Cleveland's and bushing's fairs. The Aquacade alone netted him $2,000,000 after taxes...