Music: Johnny's Doll

I'm goin' to buy a paper doll that I can call my own,

A doll that other fellows cannot steal,

And then the flirty, flirty guys with their flirty, flirty eyes

Will have to flirt with dollies that are real.*

Last week, via the voices of Frank Sinatra and the Mills Brothers, this musical tickler was mooning out of every radio and juke box in the U.S. The top song hit of the month, Paper Doll had a sheet-music sale of more than 500,000 copies and a phonograph-record sale of close to a million. It was proving again that yesterday's flop may live to...