Word: barrelers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Straight from Hopalong. Returning East, the President flew off to get in some duck hunting at the Cedar Point shooting club on Lake Erie near Toledo as the guest of Treasury Secretary George Humphrey. Ike, who hadn't hunted waterfowl in 20 years, used a 20-gauge double-barrel rather than the bigger, conventional duck gun, the 12-gauge. Nevertheless, he got his limit of four ducks in only 30 minutes the first morning. Before he left Toledo, the President indulged one of his impulses. He telephoned a twelve-year-old girl, Patricia Gilbert, to thank...
...quickly broke with the "stupid" girl he had imagined was his ideal. He fell in love with the wife of one of Napoleon's leading officials, imagined that that old black magic was enchanting his inamorata, that "she looked at me as though I were a powder barrel." But the fuse fizzled. One violent passion for a majestic Italian beauty spanned a decade during which he never saw the "sublime wench." After eleven years he finally noted: "On September 21, at half-past eleven, I won the victory I had so long desired." It took him a few more...
Died. Oran ("Hot Lips") Page, 46, barrel-chested, gravel-voiced jazzman whose warm-toned, wildly improvised trumpet playing on such records as The Sheik of Araby and Hucklebuck brought him the international accolades of jazz addicts; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
This was followed by Rhapsody in candlelight--"a little piece I wrote myself," and The Beer barrel Polka-"I used to play this in Milwaukee saloons." Softly tittering figures skittered up the aisles to snap a picture. One teen-ager ducked under an usher's arm and squirmed breathlessly to the edge of the stage." "I see you baby," Libby called...
...history. When New Mexican Novelist Paul Horgan began to do his book on the Rio Grande, it was meant to be one of the series. But in the end, the publishers decided not to include his book, for it towers above the others as a Prescott towers above cracker-barrel chroniclers. Great River is not only a fine job of historical research. It fuses the imagination of a good novelist (The Fault of Angels) with a remarkable sense of a region's character...