Word: bellyful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Once morbid Japanese ripe for Death would dispatch themselves with a dagger, elaborately disemboweling themselves in a ritual of exquisite pain. Today such heroic acts of hara-kiri ("belly-cut") are rare. Suicide has gone cheap, and last week Japan's go-getting suicide tycoon, owl-eyed Jinnojo Hayashi...
Married. Huddie Ledbetter. ("Lead Belly"), 46, Negro singer and guitar player, twice-pardoned murderer (TIME, Jan. 14); and Martha Promise, Shreveport. La. laundress; at the Wilton, Conn. home of John Avery Lomax, music anthologist.
John Lomax arrived in Manhattan last week to lecture on ballads and with him was Lead Belly, wild-eyed as ever. The Negro had been pardoned again because Mr. Lomax had made a phonograph record of a second petition and taken it to Louisiana's Governor Allen. Lead Belly...
Wearing overalls and a blue hickory shirt over a yellow one, Lead Belly sang in Manhattan last week for University of Texas alumni. And John Lomax was nervous. Theatrical agents and radio scouts insisted on hearing his protege, who had been out on a wild 24-hour rampage in Harlem...
*A "jelly" in the Louisiana swamplands means a very fat woman. Many of Lead Belly's songs are in Lomax's excellent book, American Ballads and Folk Songs (Macmillan, $5).