Word: cannoneering
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...Cannon strums his banjo by the coal stove in his little house just south of the railroad tracks in Memphis. He plays and sings the songs he wrote himself-songs like Madison Street Rag and Walk Right In. Half a century ago, he toured the South with a medicine show, but the last time he played downtown in Memphis, he went to jail. He was giving a sidewalk concert for handouts when "the policeman took me by the seat of my britches and put me in his car." A $26 fine was proof enough for Gus Cannon that...
...Cannon earned his keep by working as a yard man. Last winter the cold clamped down on Memphis. There was no work and no money, and Gus almost froze. When his stove went out in January, he hocked his banjo for $20 worth of coal. It was the first time that banjo had ever been out of his hands, and Gus Cannon's neighbors had to get used to nights without his music. But just when poverty seemed to have him silenced, at 79, the old man made it as a composer: a group called the Rooftop Singers recorded...
...Russians weren't having enough trouble playing nursemaid to Fidel Castro, last week one of their freighters was laced with 20-mm. cannon shells as two boatloads of anti-Castro exiles staged a hit-and-run raid on the north coast Cu ban port of Isabela de Sagua. Havana radio reported that wounded Russian sailors were taken to a hospital, and Moscow's Izvestia railed that "the strings of the whole open plot against the heroic people of Cuba lead either to the CIA or the Pentagon." In Miami, two exile organizations-Alpha 66. an action-minded band...
...Montreal who had to dig in garbage pails for chicken last Christmas, I really feel their hunger. I feel their misery. I identify." He vaguely blames the "big interests," meaning the English-speaking people who rule Canada. "Have you ever heard of them lacking money to build a cannon? No. But family allowances, old-age pensions, money for the blind, ah-ha! That's another matter." And he continues: "No one doubts the abundance in the country now. Look at the stores. They have spring sales, before-season sales, after-season sales, Christmas sales, pre-sale sales. The question...
...soon as Pansy takes control of them they can posture brilliantly, particularly Charles Pierce. The males are predictably less impressive, but I liked John Powel's hearty, sweaty, and altogether pleasant Andy, and the Russians, who are satisfactory stock Russians. The Shadyrests, by the way, Joseph Bright and Walter Cannon as two appealing irrelevancies, are delightful...