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...author of the best-selling The Life and Death of a Spanish Town, of two best-selling murder mysteries, and of three worst-selling novels (Indelible, Impromptu, Imperturbe). He is the ex-coeditor of the esoteric expatriate magazine, transition, and an expert on boogie-woogie and the accordion. He is the man who introduced into the Massachusetts Legislature a bill (defeated) forcing book & play censors to pass an intelligence test and to prove that their sex lives were normal...
...Blow into the end of the wooden tube, and out comes sweet, soft, sad music. The recorder is easier to learn, easier on the neighbors, than the piano, fiddle, saxophone, for which ten easy lessons are never quite easy enough. It is decidedly less corny than the mandolin, banjo, accordion. Bach and Handel, and many another before them, wrote fine, easily negotiable recorder tunes...
When grapnels touched "an object" at 73 fathoms (440 feet) submen knew what to expect: at that depth and pressure (almost 200 Ib. per square inch) the old O-9 must have folded, bow to stern, like an accordion. Oil slicked the surface. Cork, from the O-9's inner walls, bobbed up into the glare of searchlights. Pieces of the O-9's deck gratings, flakes of paint appeared. In the press room at the Portsmouth base, a Navy veteran said: "Boys, that...
Close to 500 people crowded the Union Saturday evening to witness the "Follies of '44," which consisted of a sweet potato player, assorted accordion players, an original piano concerto, Snooperman reversing books, a Grind who did not stir from books, a pick-up on a park bench, and other products of yardling imagination...
...scorers retired and by popular demand, Professor Leach sang several of his original compositions, accompanying himself on the accordion. On the encore of "Non-negotiable Instruments' the audience joined in on the chorus, "non-negotiable You." "I want to Go to Yale, Mamma," and "Oh, Mr. Lewis (and Mr. Green)" kept the audience laughing. The faculty and students had both tallied a total of 68 7/8 points, but the victory of the evening went to Professor Leach. As he could not fairly award the bespangled crown to either side, he generously offered to take it home to his young...