WAS THE KING OF SWING SILENCED BY BULLET OF A US HITMAN?

This Is Bristol/Western Daily Press (UK) ^ | 17:32 - 26 February 2003 | NA

[dware]

The suggestions that Miller was interested in both sexes was backed by a medium

What do you call a midget psychic who just broke out of prison?

A small medium at large.

[Consort]

I've never heard of Glen Miller being referred to as the King of Swing.

[Consort]

Make Glen = Glenn.

[battlegearboat]

The same thought I had.

Got me giggling and I laughed when I saw your name deputy.

[IncPen]

My father was a staff Sgt. in the signal corps, and travelled just behind the action all over the European theater setting up and servicing radar sites, which at that time was a somewhat new technology. He crossed paths with all manner of ranks and service types.

Two of his best friends- before and after the war- were in the air corps (one as a door-gunner/photographer with heavy service in Asia and the other was a highly decorated fighter pilot who won several decorations for his defense of Great Britain)

My dad did not discuss much of what he saw in the war, nor did his two friends. The anecdote I related was one of two 'war stories' I ever recalled him relating. I never asked the source of his story, as he mentioned it only once, when I was young.

The other story I recall him telling had to do with him wandering off from his unit in Italy, and coming across a group of GIs who had a young Italian girl amongst them in the forest; she was trading 'favors' for cigarettes. My father had two younger sisters, and told me the sight made him physically ill.

[babylonian]

Creating subliminals has become an art form. The concept of embedding hidden audio or visual stimuli is as old as the ages. Many paintings by the old masters contain subliminals. With today's technology, embedding subliminal stimuli has become quite easy and commonplace.

Practically the only intelligent, open discussion of the subject came in the 1970's books by Dr. Wilson Bryan Key, a college professor, who offered great insights as to why and how subliminals can psychologically manipulate people. Then, of course, there's the grandaddy of all books on the subject, The Hidden Persuaders, written by Vance Packard, in the mid 50's. It's an eye opener, even today!

Most of the research done in the last 50 or 60 years concerning the "how-to's" and the effectiveness of subliminals has been commissioned by governments, ad agencies and networks, and is definitely kept under wraps. After all, the people who create the most subliminal stimuli don't want anybody to find out they're doing it. It's difficult to find anyone who will even admit to doing it, although any ad agency in America that's worth it's salt is involved in doing subliminals.

As for the poor, ignorant Joe Blows who insist that there's no such thing as subliminals, all I can say is, they're the best psychological targets there are. They're sitting ducks and are the prime victims of the mindbenders. Their own disbelief and arrogance will keep them from ever catching on.

[SunkenCiv]

There's a summary of one version of what appears to be the real events or something like them, with the usual snide twist from the Straight Dope:

Did band leader Glenn Miller die in a French brothel?
by John Corrado

Here's a small excerpt that gives the general details from Colin Wilson's more complete version:

Unsolved Mysteries Past and Present
by Colin Wilson

...a tape made by a BBC engineer named Teddy Gower, who claimed that he had flown to Paris (Orly) with Glenn Miller from Bovington on Thursday, December 14...in a Dakota and had probably been met by David Niven... World War II veteran... claimed that he had not only known Major Glenn Miller but had been with Miller in a military hospital in Columbus, Ohio, when the bandleader died of head injuries... [Millergate author Wright] was astonished to receive a letter confirming that Alton Glenn Miller, later a resident of New Jersey, had died in Ohio.

Miller's wife, Helen... who had moved [in 1949] to Pasadena... had purchased a six-grave burial plot in nearby Altadena. But the family consisted of only herself and the son and daughter she and Glenn had adopted; there were also her parents, who were, in due course, buried in the plot. Who was the extra grave for? The cemetery officials were asked to deny that Glenn Miller was buried in the plot; it took them fifteen months to do so...

If true, is this important? If true, is it really anyone's business if the family wants to keep the world unaware? If true, they want to keep the world so unaware that they'll never be able to put a gravestone on his grave.

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[SunkenCiv]

Celebrities in the Armed Forces? Not These Days
Newhouse News Service ^ | 4/16/03 | Michele Melendez
Posted on 04/16/2003 2:11:31 PM PDT by Incorrigible
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/894634/posts

[Ditter]

I think this thread needs a wide brimed tin foil hat, not a beanie.

[mountaineer]

I agree - Benny Goodman was the King of Swing. My little sister, now a professional clarinet player, met him when she was in high school in the 1970s and nearly swooned. He was very gracious to her.

I was quite puzzled when I saw the title of this thread, to say the least!

[Glenn]

What can you say....

One more person sullies my namesake, I'm suing! Last warning!

[Petronski]

This story is murderific.

[Zeroisanumber]

Utter nonsense.

[Hollywoodghost]

Did you know that King Tut was murdered?

[WhiteGuy]

Glen Miller ROCKS!

[nickcarraway]

King of Swing Glenn Miller was a bisexual whose music had hidden subliminal messages used to brainwash German troops

Oh, yeah, and Artie Shaw was a shill for the Nattional Egg Council and his music hypnotized people to buy eggs.

[swarthyguy]

Why do you think they called it Swing?

[shield]

DOUBT IT!!!

My Navy Daddy....raised me on Glenn Miller. I love his music!!!

[finnigan2]

Who knew that, "American Patrol" was really Glen's sly way of referring to cruising the gay bar scene?

[wireman]

"Benny Goodman's "Sing, Sing, Sing" makes me want to get up and jitterbug every time I hear it."

That's because it was written by Louis Prima!