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Hail & Farewell. In Chelsea, Mass., Ragpicker Thomas Masco found $1,450 in an old mattress, went on a toot, died...
Frankie Baker, who says she shot Johnny in 1899, went to court in St. Louis to claim $250,000 damages for humiliation caused her by the movie made out of the famed blues song. Among her claims: there was no "root-a-toot-toot"-only a solitary shot...
...Prolonged Study." Most apathetic spot in the country was the territory served by isolationist Chicago Tribune, where the Tribune's editorials and Charles Augustus Lindbergh's shrill "they can't touch us" had all but drowned out OCD's weak little toot. Last week the Midwest had just begun to yawn and stretch. In Wisconsin it was announced that plans for civilian defense were going to be given "prolonged study." St. Louis declared that it would get around this week to enrolling some 50,000 volunteers which it figured it might need...
...version of The Star-Spangled Banner, published last week, bore those words on the cover. The words and music were by a sometime modernist ear-splitter, a onetime Russian aristocrat, Igor Stravinsky. At first toot, the author of the raucous thumps and blats of The Rite of Spring (played in Walt Disney's Fantasia) hardly seemed a likely rearranger for the national anthem. But the Stravinskian Star-Spangled Banner, despite its slight Russian accent, is a genuinely spacious and stirring piece. It should be welcomed by conductors who, under the ukase of Boss James Caesar Petrillo of the musicians...
After seeing movies of the game, Friesell frankly admitted his mistake. Though he could not reverse his decision (a referee's jurisdiction ends with his last whistle toot), Cornell conceded the game to Dartmouth (3-to-0) in a shining display of sportsmanship. Afterwards he actually received letters addressed merely "Fifth Downer, U.S.A...