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...should like to be among the first to plug Lindbergh for President in 1940; perhaps on a no-party platform of pure Americanism through this period of international stress. CHARLES F. MCREYNOLDS...
...London a kibitzer from The Athenaeum wrote to the Times suggesting that BBC revise and plug Pack Up Your Troubles as this war's song,* with a refrain something like this: What's the use of Goring? He never was worthwhile. So-o-o Pack up your Goebbels in your old kit bag, And Heil! Heil! Heil...
...Howard, the Gay Nineties song-&-dance man who wrote I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now and 500 other whilom favorites, is 72. His shuffle-off-to-Buff alo is not what it used to be, but he can still plug a song. Last Christmas, parsimonious Showman Billy Rose, whose cabaret career is paved with old music-hall favorites hired for a song, hired old Joe to sing his old songs at Manhattan's rhinestony Diamond Horseshoe. For Joe Howard, the job was a welcome hitch along his comeback trail-which last week looked promising indeed...
...abundance of enjoyable new music." It is more important as a threat: to make ASCAP shave its fees in radio's 1941 contract. If fees are revised, Broadcast Music, Inc., will be dissolved. If not, NAB members expect to hand ASCAP a shellacking by 1) refusing to plug any ASCAP songs, including those from movies, producer of much of today's hit music; 2) signing up as many new tunesters and renegade ASCAP-ers as possible; 3) producing its own future Hold Tights, Three Little Fishies, Well All Right...
...were in motion, and advancing columns stretched back 45 miles behind the German lines. On a 75-mile front the Allied lines gave way as the British lost 150,000 men and British and French liaison was broken. The French VI Army Corps was sent in to plug the gap and Gamelin's 9th Division, first in position, faced six German divisions rolling forward under the tremendous momentum of their advance...