Ex-Band Leader Kay Kyser Returns to UNC Life
Hollywood icon Kay Kyser, now retired, explains his return to college life at the University of North Carolina. He laments traffic fatalities and discusses his brief reunion with show business while pursuing a private citizen role and a statewide traffic safety program. The piece notes his past fame with Ginny Simms and Ish Kabibble and references the 1956 wool and mohair incentive prices set by the USDA.
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Kay Kyser
University of North Carolina
Hollywood
Kyser
Ginny Simms
Harry Babbitt
Ish Kabibble
Wnc-Tv
College of Musical Knowledge
Pacific
Georgia
Kim
Carroll
Amanda Kay
Chapel Hill
Hobbs
Perry Como
Como
Mitchell Ayres
United States Department of Agriculture
Washington
Texas Sheep & Goat Raisers’ Assn
TS&GRA_ group
RR. W. Hodge
del Rio
USDA
Texas
Arthur Godfrey
North Carolina
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Comanche County
Newburg
John M. Guice
McCulloch
D. T. Harkrider
Motor Vehicle Division
Texas Highway Department
Brady
Houston
Boyd Commander, Jr
Dorothea
Jimmy
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Alberta
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Florence
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Jane Arden
Brazil
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Wingate
Capitol
U. S
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Safeway Canned
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Gebhardt
Ry. A
Pet and
del Mont
Kelvin
Jonathan Apples
Prunes
Colorado
Elberta
WAC
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Army
PFC
Regina C. Jones
Anderson Cottage
Lincoln
Miss Jones
Egypt
F. M
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Brady Hospital
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Virginia Madison
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Aileen Trimble
J. M. Coleman
Will Rogers
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J. A. McKinnon
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Roy Holliday
United Nations
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Earl Todd
Korea
Mmes
A. H. Floyd
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Marvin Panky
Bill Crew
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Louise Countryman
Wayne Jones
L. O. Brown
Roy Ellison
Walter Bowden
Homer Lee
Homer Chalk Lee
Presbyterian Church
Brady Drug
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Plaza
Dial
Mrs. Jones
Hardin Jones
H. Conger Jones
Rotary
Rotary Club
Tommy Brower
Bert Hughes
John L. Morrow
FE. O. Martin
J. H. Francks
Tommy Ereckson
John Watlenbureg
Bonna
Jean Nance
San Saba
Bonna Jean Nance
Carl Nance
Sherron Smith
Barbara Bodenhamer
Carolyn Ingram
Janet Rudder
Diane Roddie
Sylvia Bell
Cynthia Reynolds
Mrs. Farmer
Harry L. Farmer
Cleveland
Ohio
Rahama Willhelm
Clarence Snider
R. A. Snider
Doris
Brownwood
James Snider
San Angelo
Ernst Tetens
Laura Lee
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W. K. Granville
Frank Corder
John Lewis
King
Herbert Harkrider
Roger George
Lloyd Bratton
A. D. Jacobson
McAllen
Tom Hill Miller
Frank V. Hurd
Norman Hurd
Mary Elizabeth Wolfe
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N. J
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Louise Mills
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