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Howard Johnson, Red Barn...
...stagecoach barn is to become the church, but at the moment it is rafter high with refuse. So last week's inaugural service had to be held in the general store, which is full of abandoned electrical equipment. The new settlers, accompanied by banjo, piano and two guitars, belted out a new hymn for the occasion, written to the tune of Okie from Muskogee...
There is universal agreement that Show Boat is Kern's supreme achievement and that the work as a whole is a peak in the history of the musical. Those who need to be shown why can catch a new production of it at the Barn Theatre in New London, New Hampshire, from July 19 to 31. In the 1927 original, the singing of "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man" and "Bill" elevated Helen Morgan to stardom; and it was expressly for her that Kern and Hammerstein wrote Sweet Adeline two years later...
...first race he entered, a six-furlong sprint. His dazzling 9¾-length victory in the Champagne Stakes last fall-bettering Secretariat's time in the premier race for two-year-olds-earned him the Eclipse Award as the season's best juvenile colt. From a barn on the Belmont backside, he trained for his victories in the Kentucky Derby and Preakness. On the eve of the Belmont Stakes, the final jewel in the Triple Crown, Owner Mickey Taylor said: "This is our gym. Slew has the home-court advantage." Last week Seattle Slew galloped around...
Surely the gray-and-white-faced miner depicted on the barn mural in "Rural Murals in Dairyland" [May 16] is not an iron miner but a lead miner, -a representative of the men who settled our area of southwestern Wisconsin in the early 1800s. They holed up in their mines in the winters to become known as Badgers and provided much of the lead used by the North in the Civil War. It is truly fitting that his portrait is the center figure of the mural, for he was in the center of the development of the state...