Word: banjo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bran Flakes & Kisses. The temperature was a chilly 46° when the Tigers and Cubs squared off for their big tea party last week. What followed was enough to give any big-league manager chills & fever. No exceptions were Chicago's banjo-strumming Charlie ("Jolly Cholly") Grimm and Detroit's pug-nosed Irishman, Steve O'Neill. And what went for them went for their wives: plump, chestnut-haired Lillian Lyle Grimm and dark, buxom Mary Boland O'Neill...
What made Grimm's Cubs run was not a roster-load of stars, but a compact team of workers, and a manager who knew how to get them to play together. Ham-fisted Manager Charlie ("The Banjo") Grimm looks like a man having fun. Standing in his third-base coaching box, he cups his big paws and joyously bellows out the count after each pitch. He wiggles and waddles back & forth, lets out an occasional piercing whistle, mimics rival pitchers...
Crescent's Morden and Ertegun, who are putting out a 1,200-disc reissue this week, have enthusiastic plans for new Ory recordings this spring. Meanwhile the Kid, already expert on the five-string banjo, guitar, alto saxophone, trumpet and bass, is taking piano lessons. Mulling over his future, he concluded: "Now that I've got me a good Dixieland band, I'm going to try and play as long as I hold...
...remained for newly elected Cowboy Glenn Taylor, the pride of Idaho, to supply the inevitable comic relief. Gathered with his wife & children on the Capitol steps, the wide-open Senator, banjo in hand, wailed his lament. Sample verse...
...typical. Organized to sell lots in then suburban Elysian Park, the company had one horse-drawn car. Once the only driver said: "The owners furnished the horse and I the feed. My pay was $4 a week and all I took in ... about 10? a day. I had a banjo and was learning to play. I would start from one end of the line and busy myself with my banjo. The horse stopped whenever he found good grazing...