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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cracks of journalistic small fry such as W. Livingston Larned of the White Plains (N. Y.) Reporter, who recently bawled: "Oh say can you see by the dawn's early light the Tin-Pan Alley tune mechanics and melody mongers.. . . 'Suppose we put a feller wavin' an American flag on the cover,' suggests Ike. . . . And Moe, turning from the practice piano, answers, 'You got something there. Big Boy.' " Comparatively restrained in his disapproval was Manhattan Minister Dr. Edgar Franklin Romig, who recently described the song as "mawkish," was promptly taken to task...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Badgered Ballad | 9/30/1940 | See Source »

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