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...have the reading done for him by a professional. There were never so many children's records to choose from. Among the new standouts: Danny Kaye's version of a children's favorite, Tubby the Tuba (Decca); a new volume in Capitol's Bozo the Clown series; Peter Lind Hayes' Genie, the Magic Record (Decca); Sterling Holloway's Uncle Remus Stories (Decca); The Little Engine That Could (Victor); Dinah Shore's Bongo (Columbia). Older kids can hear Lionel Barrymore's reading of Dickens' A Christmas Carol (MGM) or shiver to Basil...
...propaganda for democracy and education (a selling point to parents) with their music. Decca's Churkendoose ("it was neither a turkey, a chicken, a duck nor a goose") with Comedian-Dancer Ray Bolger is a broad plea for racial tolerance. Capitol Records bound books inside its Bozo the Clown albums so that children could follow the narrative of Bozo's travels, get a rudimentary idea of geography. Bozo's sales: 1,000,000. Most of the companies are dead serious about their job as molders of the young mind. When a Columbia Records survey showed that...
...baying, middle-aged men cavorting through the streets. The New York Post's "Saloon Editor" Earl Wilson predicted: "New York will never tolerate the American Legion again." A World War II combat infantryman wrote a letter to the New York Daily News: "A warning to any Legion clown who approaches me: you must have paid plenty for those store teeth, Pop. . . . No sense getting them all mashed...
Columnist Billy Rose had been hearing from his indignant readers. Some of them, he confided, didn't like having such serious subjects as Palestine "discussed by a Broadway clown with breakaway suspenders and a nose that lights up. They suggested I let the Deep Thinkers do the deep thinking and confine my writings to razzle-dazzle and razzmatazz...
...gallery were horrified. One remarked to Scotland's Helen Holm, one of the quarter finalists, that the Babe was "altogether lacking in refinement." Golfer Holm cut her off: "You're speaking of the finest woman golfer that has ever been seen here." "And what if she does clown a bit?" asked the father of Golf Pro Jimmy Thomson. "That's just her way, and only an old tabby would object...