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...Calley invariably finds his drink tab (bourbon and Seven-Up) collected by an admirer. While in Washington, where he was undergoing psychiatric tests last week, he had $10 thrust at him by a stranger. In Columbus, Calley and his friends are always guests of the house at the Chickasaw Supper Club. A local wine shop gives him a discount. The president of the Fourth National Bank personally expedites Calley's transactions. One day Calley presented his check in a Gatlinburg, Tenn., bank and the teller said, "Gee, no kidding, you're Lieutenant Calley?" The check went through immediately...
Earl Welch, 72, is a distinguished Chickasaw Indian. Senior member of the Oklahoma Supreme Court, the state's highest tribunal, he has served 32 years, been chief justice two terms. Last week Justice Welch was haled before a federal grand jury in Oklahoma City, along with retired Supreme Court Justice N. S. Corn. Result: both judges were indicted for income tax evasion-$11,063 for Corn, $13,365 for Welch. If convicted, Justice Welch will quit the bench for a cell for a maximum of 25 years, pay a possible $50,000 fine...
...fight his first professional bout-a six-rounder with a former smalltown West Virginia police chief named Tunney Hunsaker. "He's a bum," confided Cassius. "I'll lick him easy." But he still got up at 5 a.m. every day to run at least two miles in Chickasaw Park, and he boxed a few fast training rounds with his younger brother Rudolph...
...publishers say that Borden Deal is one-eighth Chickasaw Indian. Philosophically, he is also part Manichee-an adherent of the doctrine that good and evil are unmixed. This view of life handicaps a novelist of great honesty...
...forgotten outfit, e.g., Benny Goodman, Jack Teagarden, Glenn Miller and Jimmy McPartland turn up in Ben Pollack and His Orchestra. Others from the '20s: Eddie Condon's Hot Shots, Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers. From the '30s: Jimmie Lunceford and His Chickasaw Syncopators and the legendary Jimmy Yancey, who beats out eight beautiful blues and boogies. RCA engineers managed to clean up the old masters until the recorded sound is as smooth as last year's models...