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...Acker Bilk, king of the trad men, is a chap with a name that has probably caused Charles Dickens to stir in his grave, tap his foot and smile. A 32-year-old former Somersetshire blacksmith. Bilk acquired his skills on the clarinet in an army guardhouse after he fell asleep on sentry duty. Wearing bowler hats and striped waistcoats Acker Bilk and his Paramount Jazz Band are half New Orleans and half Somerset cider, thumping out numbers like Run Come See Jerusalem and Ory's Creole Trombone, while Bilk makes Louis Armstrong-style comments. At last year...
Salvage Artist. The man behind Honda's meteoric rise is balding, energetic Soichi Honda, 55. A blacksmith's son, Honda quit school to become an auto mechanic, by 27 had his own garage with 50 helpers. Before World War II, he switched over to manufacturing piston rings, but his business faltered-which he blamed on his own lack of schooling. To salvage his firm, Honda enrolled in a technical school at night, continued to run the business by day. The company soon got on its feet, only to be knocked flat by a U.S. air raid...
Singing & Dancing. The term Shakers -like Quakers-was originally a derisive taunt by "the world's people"; their official name is the United Society of Believers. The society was founded by a puissant prophetess named Mother Ann Lee, the daughter of a British blacksmith, who brought her eight original disciples to America in 1774. They settled in Watervliet, N.Y. to live, in the words of Mother Ann, "as though you had 1,000 years to live and as you would if you knew you must die tomorrow...
Died. Lieut. General Mikhail V. Khrunichev, 60, barrel-chested former blacksmith who only eight weeks ago was named a Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union, boss of a newly created agency charged with mobilizing all applied science; of a heart attack; in Moscow...
Patter of Footsteps. On offense, Schloredt is a ground-gaining runner. "He's a blacksmith type of boy," says Assistant Coach Tipps. "He's used to running into folks and he don't mind it a bit." Adds Schloredt: "I've always had strong legs. And there's something about the way I run that gives the illusion of slowness, so that a lot of people have tried to tackle me after I was already past them. It's nothing I invented. It's just an illusion...