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...message at the Manhattan radio studio simply asked its musical director to call a Brooklyn telephone number-no name given. When he called, a woman's voice asked, "Is this Meredith Willson?" Assured that it was, the woman said reverently, "May the good Lord bless and keep you," and then hung...
Ever since Iowa-born Meredith Willson, 49, wrote May the Good Lord Bless and Keep You as a closing number ("something benedictory") for Tallulah Bankhead's The Big Show last fall, he has been flooded with up to 2,000 fan letters a week. Once when he tried "to give it a little beat," the letters demanded that he "quit jazzing up that hymn." Says somewhat surprised Composer Willson, who based the song on his mother's parting blessing to her Mason City Sunday-school pupils: "It's not a hymn, it's not hillbilly...
...success of his latest song was icing on the cake for Meredith Willson last week. The big event was the celebration of his 20th anniversary with NBC as probably the most durable composer-conductor in radio. Tallulah saluted him over the air with a sub-contralto speech, and gave him a plaque. His publishers exhorted disc jockeys throughout the U.S. to make it "May-the-Good-Lord-Bless-and-Keep-You" Week...
Bart J. Bok, Willson Professor of Applied Astronomy, has been appointed temporary successor to the late John S. Paraskevoupoulos, as superintendent of the Boyden Station of the Harvard Observatory in Bloemfontein, Africa...
Samuel V.K. Willson '50, who directed the Winthrop House production of "Pina-fore" earlier this year, heads the cast. It is Willson's first singing role...