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...first Blue Grass recording was made in 1940, the successful "Mule-skinner Blues," a tune authored by another pioneer of early country music, Jimmy Rodgers, the "Singing Brakeman." In these early days, Bill Monroe's band contained mandolin, guitar, fiddle and string bass, the last of these being the only instrument not found in traditional country music. In 1945 the Blue Grass band took the form in which it remains today, with the addition of a five-string banjo, played by Earl Scruggs in the now universal three-finger style. which bears little resemblance to the earlier "claw hammer" style...
...Bobsledding and Tobogganing Federation chose Cortina's twisting (twelve curves) Ronco run as the site for last week's 1966 championships. Monti could not bear the thought of standing around as a spectator while Nash or somebody else won the race on his own home course. Besides, Brakeman Sergio Siorpaes had designed a faster, more maneuverable sled with motorcycle shock absorbers and a central pivot that permitted both sets of runners to bank independently on curves. "I have never felt more like racing," said Monti after testing the sled. Even a crash failed to dampen his enthusiasm: during...
...Antony J. D. Nash, 28, a frustrated sports-car racer (his dad said no to a Maserati, yes to a bobsled), shocked everybody by beating Monti for the two-man gold medal. Monti thereupon decided to retire, and last week Tony Nash was back at St. Moritz with his brakeman, Robin Dixon, to defend his title of best bobsledder in the world...
...Gall All Over." Success in that career came early because Howard worked hard to get it. Whatever he got, he owed to no other man. The son of an Irish railroad brakeman and a tollgate keeper's daughter, he never went beyond high school. As a youth in Indianapolis, he rose before dawn to carry the Star, delivered the News every afternoon. In between, he filed so many space-rate stories for the News that the paper put him on a reporter's salary ($8 a week) to save money. Ambition led him to St. Louis...
...plan had its roots in the accident-prone 1880s, when the odds against a brakeman's dying a natural death were almost 4 to 1. Employers later became liable for injuries, but trainmen had a hard time hiring good lawyers to protect their rights. In 1930 the brotherhood opened a legal-aid department - a pioneering plan offering injured trainmen the services of 16 highly skilled lawyers. Stationed around the U.S., these lawyers agreed to limit their fees to 25% of the amount recovered, and they returned part of their fees to the brotherhood...