[78-L] Mary Martin, Mary Martin ^

[David Lennick]

We gotta change the subject line once in a while (and I'm guilty for having 
steered it towards The First Family and the Texas book suppository in the first 
place)..I couldn't figure why on earth Mary Martin or Mary Rodgers would have 
wanted to ban "Three to Make Ready" (the original subject of this thread).

dl

fnarf at comcast.net wrote:
> Even better, she wanted to ban it ("Brown Bear, Brown Bear, Where Are You?" because the author, Bill Martin, also wrote a book entitled "Ethical Marxism". Except that it was a DIFFERENT BILL MARTIN.
> 
> Geniuses. 
> 
> http://www.examiner.com/x-15870-Populist-Examiner~y2010m1d25-Texas-book-banning-proves-youre-deep-in-the-heart-of-stupid
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Geoffrey Wheeler" <dialjazz at verizon.net>
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> Sent: Thursday, February 4, 2010 9:50:44 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
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> 
> Julian Vein Says: I've always thought it strange that Texas, a state 
> about the same size
> as Europe, would have only one book depository!
> 
> A recurring problem in the State of Texas are school boards that ban 
> certain books and authors. A recent case is that of a toxic board 
> member who voted to ban a book by an author she deemed “leftist.” Turns 
> out the author was a well-known author of (non-leftist) children’s 
> books. .