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Then, last week, Don Francisco struck another note. From Granada's gypsy dives to his upper story apartment he invited an accordion player, a tambourine player and two trumpeters. "My good fellows," he said, "make yourselves at home. For you there are comfortable beds, food, and all the wine you can drink, providing you do one thing: play your tunes loud as you can from...
...water. In his new role of Buffalo Bob, great white chief of the Sigafoose Indians, Smith has traded in his lion tamer's suit for fringed buckskin, but still struggles manfully with such gadgets as the Plapdoodle and the Scopedoodle. To keep things moving he plays the piano, accordion, drums, organ, guitar, ukulele, string bass, trumpet, saxophone, clarinet, trombone, tuba, and such novelty instruments as the tonette and slide whistle. He can also arrange music and imitate a bass fiddle...
Like the pre-publication dummy (TIME, Sept. 12), Flair's Vol. I, No. 1 was full of tricks. Samples: a "window" in the cover permitting a partial view of the next page, an accordion foldout, a page of Fleur's own self-assured handwriting in gold ink on blue paper, pages of odd sizes and varied textures. To readers familiar with Fleur's wearing of a rose as a trademark, Flair's frontispiece was the most Fleurish -and Freudian-touch of all: it was a reproduction of Girl with Roses by Artist Lucian Freud, grandson...
...star who turned down several pro offers in order to get on with his career as musician and composer, finally signed up with the Boston Celtics at $15,000 a season when they wrote an unusual clause into his contract: between halves he will be allowed to play his accordion for the customers...
...will take up the story country by country.)A cyclist in France puts the finishing touches on his luggage. Cobblestones have an insidious way of shaking it loose. They also shake loose all the screws, and bolts on the bicycle, and occasionally they fold the frame up like an accordion...