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Such "blue" songs are naturally not allowed on the radio networks. Last week NBC revealed that 147 songs are on its black list. Because their titles are suggestive 137 may not even be played instrumentally. Among them: Lavender Cowboy; Sweetest Little Lassie; Keep Your Skirts Down, Mary Ann; Dirty Lady; A Guy What Takes His Time; But in the Morning, No. Many another song has to be laundered before NBC will pass it. Not to be sung in Thank Your Father are the lines...
Died. Poet Edwin Markham, 87, author of The Man with the Hoe; of pneumonia; in Staten Island, N. Y. Sheepherder, farmer, blacksmith, cowboy, schoolteacher and obscure dabbler in verse until he was 47, he Byroned into fame in 1899 when the San Francisco Examiner published his blank-verse masterpiece, inspired by Millet's painting, The Man with the Hoe. That one poem brought him an estimated $250,000 in 33 years...
...wants to be an electrician, a cowboy and an actor...
...Cowboy Carl" Hatch of New Mexico, author of the 1939 act barring Federal employes from active politicking, last week rammed through the Senate Elections committee a new bill spreading the ban to the 500,000 State employes who are partly paid by the U. S. Government. Squawks came from Indiana's Minton (chum of Paul V. McNutt); from Tennessee's "Crumpet" Stewart (stooge of Memphis' Boss Ed Crump) and Illinois' Lucas (collaborator with Chicago's mayor-Boss Ed Kelly...
...pictures a year, got $25,000 from Twentieth Century-Fox for Shooting High with Jane Withers, makes $10,000 to $12,000 a year on phonograph records that sometimes outsell Bing Crosby's. Another $25,000 a year comes from his magic imprimatur on cap pistols, sweat shirts, cowboy suits, a bandit-hunt game, toothbrushes, bandannas, books, balloons, dolls, a new, syndicated comic strip, make-up kits...