Word: busters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cabbage-tree hat and overalls, "Buster" became his second shiralee, and as Macauley trudged with her from job to job on the back tracks of the bush, his churlishness toward his burden slowly changed to brusque tenderness. Macauley's growing-up is obviously meant to be the heart of the story, but the book's strength lies in its Cineramic picture of the swagman's life-taking a turn at shearing, cutting burrs, fencing or digging spuds. To Macauley this was the only life, for "you have a hundred roads to choose from and a hundred towns...
Show Biz (Sun. 7:30 p.m., NBC). Salute to 53 years of theater, with Groucho Marx, Rosemary Clooney, Buster Keaton, Eartha Kitt, Bert Lahr...
...went in there because we learned that's where all the cute chicks went." The one he met was Buster Burey. "First we decided to get married five years after I graduated, then three, then one, and we finally did just before I started my last semester." (Buster died of lung cancer last February. They had no children...
They attended three Chamber of Commerce dinners and a Kiwanis lunch, spent a night at the Kozy Korner Motel in Humboldt, played the jukebox, window-shopped, chewed gum, tried "Tummy Buster" and "Idiot's Delight" sundaes at the Milky Way Dairy in Oskaloosa, "the middle of the Middle West...
Nowadays, Trumpeters Allen and Charlie Shavers head two fulltime, six-man bands that include jazz-gifted oldtimers Clarinetist Buster Bailey, Pianist Claude Hopkins, Bassist Milt Hinton, and Trombonist "Big Chief" (350 Ibs.) Russell Moore. With the help of six other mu icians who gather in smaller combos, they play their way from a slow 3 p.m. start to a frenzied 3 a.m. finish...