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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Author of such vocal successes as The Big Brown Bear Went Woof; J'Ever-Hm? I Did! Bitty Buzz; Rachem; Nichavo, Mana-Zucca has also written orchestral pieces, a piano concerto, a raft of piano pieces. Four top-notch publishers- Schirmer, Presser, Fischer, Church-snap up her output, which is steady. Songs & snatches come to her at the piano, in her garden in Miami, where she spends seven months a year, or at her dining table. Soon to be published is another Mana-Zucca work: Spinach and 'Leven Other Funny Children's Songs. Said Mana-Zucca last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Gingerbread and Spinach | 10/14/1940 | See Source »

McCullough's performance had been even more extraordinary than Chapman's. Strictly a weekend golfer, he had chalked up the second best score in the medal round, then proceeded to eliminate three of the country's best amateurs: Willie Turnesa, 1938 champion; Johnny Fischer, 1936 champion; Ray Billows, twice runner-up in the last three years. Against Chapman, however, he lost his touch. In the most one-sided final since 1895, Dick Chapman shook Warrington Bannerman McCullough out of his trance, trounced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Deadeye Dick | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

...Sally Rand's Nude Ranch, Clifford Fischer's Les Folies Bergère, and other popular holdovers from last year; the new America! Cavalcade of a Nation, a historical pageant of the U. S., and Billy Rose's Aquacade, a west coast edition, without Eleanor Holm but with equally shapely Aquabelle Esther Williams and 50,000 gallons more water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Cut-Rate Golden Gate | 6/3/1940 | See Source »

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