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...while he cut away at the technical truth of Brace's claims, Beck did something else - he goosed the passionate and pontification-prone witness into helping the Bush team with its backup plan. As Brace defended the integrity of some dimples, he got Brace to valiantly defend the abilities of canvassing boards to discern dimpled intent. Whoops. Boies, looking for another 600 votes, is also suing for a recount of the hand count in Palm Beach. If Gore's witness for his case in Miami-Dade turns out to be credible, he'll have done some work for Bush...
...never seeks to dominate. Being the star (in early 1963, he was at the peak of his early fame) he could easily have hogged the sessions, grabbed two out of the three verses. But no. These are real duets, not a lead singer with a backup...
Producer Daily, who increasingly was introducing Jones to the dubious joys of the Nashville Sound, had the sense to lay off on the strings and backup singers when he recorded Melba and George. Just a strummed guitar, bass, piano (with ace session man Pig Robbins at the ivories), fiddle, dobro and a tasty pedal steel (played by the incomparable Buddy Emmons). I don't even detect a drum beat on this track. In part, this was an attempt to cash in on the early-'60s craze for all types of folk music; no matter, the results are glorious...
Harvard's shooting woes were complicated by the loss of backup sophomore shooting guard Mike Causey. The TCU transfer who sat out last season due to NCAA transfer rules surprisingly quit the team last week for unknown reasons. Causey had been expected to provide a scoring punch from long range...
Sullivan also kept his promise of a smaller, faster team. He started three guards, Harvey, Gellert and Prasse-Freeman, and backup Brady Merchant also came up big, scoring 10 points and draining a couple of treys. The offense looked faster, and only ran into real trouble when Holy Cross forced it to take a long time and shoot with only a few seconds on the shot clock...