Word: blacksmiths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...silent days-and wife of Veteran Producer Hal Wallis-who starred in Keystone comedies as the farmer's tomboy daughter (her pigtails were insured for $10,000 by Mack Sennett). later mugged her hilarious way through some 300 Hollywood films in roles from Indian squaw to lady blacksmith without ever losing her gift of grimace; of a stroke; in Hollywood...
Everybody fears Gut in Himmel. The old blacksmith says, "Dang your old liver pin." The props are out of the 1900 Sears, Roebuck catalogue - horsehair chairs, heaters with isinglass panes, Brussels car pets, claw-footed mahogany sideboards, a crokinole board. There's a rock-'n'-rye jug full of booze, rock candy, rusty nails, and rusty hinges...
...Yankee who came down with "lung fever," headed West, took the Santa Fe Trail from Independence and finally settled in Arizona. There, on the Salt River, eight miles from a farm village that is now Phoenix, he built a flour mill, started a ferry, opened a general store, a blacksmith shop and a freighting business. Young Carl swam in the Salt River, rode a pet bull while driving cows, recalls seeing Apache fire signals burning at night on nearby Four Peaks. He went to Stanford in 1896 and, as a strapping 6-ft. 220-pounder, played center on the football...
...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...