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...Orleans to Limehouse. No one seems to know exactly how skiffle got its name, but according to some jazz buffs, it appeared under that name at the rent parties held in Chicago in the '205. Dan Burley, oldtime Chicago jazz pianist, says the simple, two-beat blues was first played by groups of Negro teen-agers too poor to pay the fare into Chicago's hot jazz spots. "It was the product of the Depression, the fusion of gospel shouts, spirituals and time spent in hole-in-the-wall joints where you ate chili and got a bellyache...
...case of burley tobacco has a different ending but the same moral. In 1954, when Congress voted flexible supports for "basic crops," supports for burley were left at 90% of parity. To hold production down, acreage had to be cut and cut. By last year more than 60% of the burley tobacco farms in the U.S. were down to the minimum allowed by the law, one-half of one acre, a plot so small that it can hardly be farmed efficiently. Assistant U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz has a label for the process: "rationing poverty...
...plunging necklines and backless dresses of modern brides are becoming an increasing distraction to clergymen officiating at weddings, the Rev. Leslie Aitken of Burley Vicarage, Leeds, England complained to his Anglican parishioners. "During the ceremony," the clergyman said, "the girls stand two steps below me . . . It's all terribly embarrassing...
...freshman class yesterday elected its ten-man Jubilee Committee. Chosen to serve were: Hugh Blair-Smith, Michael P. Burley, Jerry D. Goldberg, Christos A. Hasiotis, David M. Markell, John B. Read, Myron J. Ricci, William R. Shane, Richard L. Veech, and Roderic L. Wolfe...
Capital of the Bluegrass is the city of Lexington (pop. 55,000). It has the largest Burley leaf tobacco market in the world, carries on a thriving business in cattle and sheep, and is the home of the University of Kentucky and Transylvania College. Its No. 1 business, nevertheless, is the breed ing, raising, selling and racing of thorough breds (as early as 1782 there were "race paths" around Lexington). Standard-bred trotters and pacers and the American saddle horse are also raised here...