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...forget to say yay yay yay...
...Bronx street to hear New York City's Democratic Mayor Robert Wagner plead for reelection. Smiling painfully, Wagner shook a few hands, then launched into a pallid denunciation of New York's Democratic machine bosses. The audience response, at best, was mixed. An enthusiastic urchin yelled: "Yay for Wag'ner baby!" A tenement dweller shouted down from his window: "Get outa here, yah bum!" In the crowd, a heckler chanted a bitter litany: "New York is woise than ever, New York is woise than ever...
...Yay!" screamed his friends and relatives. "Vote no!" cried someone who most definitely was not. "Vote yes!" yelled a man who probably was. "Throw him out!" cried an in-law. "I leave it to the citizens!" cried the good man himself, as he stomped from the hall...
Next came an interlude of cowboy tunes, including The Old Chisholm Trail ("Coma ti yi youpy, yappy yay, yappy yay, Coma ti yi youpy yappy yay," which probably sounded like static to Russian ears), a talk on a new cure for hay fever (the U.S. has 5,000,000 sufferers), and a new method of exploring the Milky Way. When the closing theme, the Battle Hymn of the Republic, went out over the air, Soviet Russia was still at least as distant as the Milky Way. Just as the Voice of America signed off, the Voice of Russia (Moscow Radio...
Blessings, Spelled Out. His last book, The Show Piece, introduces an egoistic boy who is still yelling "Yay" as Penrod Schofield did over 30 years ago, and whose father remarks (as Mr. Schofield would not have felt impelled to) on the blessings of being "a good American citizen living up to his highest principles in a good American community." That kind of thing would be enough to rejoice the shade of George Horace Lorimer, from whose Saturday Evening Post Tarkington earned riches for years. But it is not "investigatory" of anything that had not been investigated before and better...