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...Banjo Boy Sirs: In TIME, Oct. 27, your article "Heroes" [about the theory that Abraham Lincoln was John Calhoun's illegitimate son] is a blot on your journalistic record that will be and should be hard to overcome...
...urge for music and lack of money for an instrument moved Felix, as a boy, to make himself a banjo strung with J. & P. Coats spool thread. A Coats Co. stockholder, flood-bound at the Alley house, was so impressed by this contraption that he sent Felix a fine store banjo and persuaded the company to use a picture of a barefoot, banjo-playing boy as a trademark. At 16 Felix also wrote a ballad, Kidder Cole, which became famous...
...muted-trumpet statement of Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man led into a tricky blues section: four saxophones playing over pizzicato plunk-plunks in the strings. The wow-finale brought back Ol' Man River for full symphony orchestra plus saxo phones, harmonica, banjo, guitar, organ, glockenspiel, tom-toms, bones, vibraphone, xylophone...
Please! Don't ever refer again to Charles Boyer as balding or banjo-eyed! He wears a toupee-so what? And his eyes are definitely not banjo-eyes. They are, rather, soft, sleepy and caressing. And furthermore, who has a better right to have eyes soft and caressing than a Frenchman...
...result of an offer to sing with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Glee Club found it necessary to split with the Banjo and Mandolin in 1919. This schism caused a great deal of trouble in the College...