Word: coonskin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Browning ("Of the 206 bones in his body, there isn't one that is genuine . . . His heart has beaten over two billion times without a sincere beat"). He called Kefauver an "oxblood Red" and "pet coon." Kefauver turned the attack to his own advantage by donning a coonskin cap and invading the boss's own Shelby County (Memphis) five times...
...RedHaired Wife." Most Tennesseans knew that Estes Kefauver was no more a Communist than Ed Crump himself. They liked his showmanship and the way he stayed un-Crumpled. When he invaded Memphis he wore a coonskin cap, drew big crowds. Trumpeted his followers: "If there is anything red about him it is his red-blooded Americanism and his beautiful red-haired wife...
Melody Time (Disney; RKO Radio) is a crowded 75 minutes of song-illustrated animation involving: 1) skating lovers, tintype style, emulated by rabbits; 2) Rimsky-Korsakov's bumblebee, tormented by a boogie bass; 3) Johnny Appleseed, advised by a Guardian Angel in a coonskin cap; 4) Donald Duck, Joe Carioca and Organist Ethel Smith in the throes of a samba; 5) an apotheosis of Joyce Kilmer's Trees; 6) a young tugboat named Little Toot which disgraces and redeems itself; 7) a tall-tale, free-for-all finale about Pecos Bill, his horse Widow-maker...
Maybe you just slipped the mothballs in the pockets of your coonskin coat and took a last glance at a rumpled Yale program, but the fact is that it's already time to be thinking of next season's gridiron tickets...
...least of all Coach Dick Harlow, writes off a game until the final whistic. But even this cagey sage has reason to believe that his traditional November strength is in for a premature September birth. Wise money has it that Western Maryland should get its coonskin hat handed to it with a Mason-Dixon head in it while the Crimson first team is exchanging pleasantries in the showers...