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...stay on his back for the required eight seconds. "Those six times, he must've been colicky." says one cowboy. The roster of Aught's conquests is the Who's Who of rodeo: Harry Tompkins (five-time world champion bull rider), Billy Hand, Gid Garstead, Pete Crump, Tex Martin, Larry Condon. Recalls Tompkins : "He was really spinning, and all of a sudden, after seven seconds, he sort of stopped and flung me right up on his horns. I was in bad shape, helpless--but he just turned his head, slipped me off, and walked away...
...incoming shells or a long, looping machine-gun burst from a distant weapon. Often a barrage caught Katanga's loyal whites of the home guard in mid-Scotch or mid-meal at an Elisabethville bistro. "Ah, it is time to go," shrugged one 24-year-old as the crump of nearby gunfire sent the lunchtime customers to the floor at one restaurant. Shouldering his rifle, he left in the direction of the shooting...
This is a dead city, a battlefield where vultures circle overhead and the smell of panic is stronger than the stench of the unswept, palm-fringed boulevards. The shops are barred, the restaurants deserted. Hour after hour, day and night, the tomblike hush is broken only by the distant crump of exploding mortar shells, the whoom of bazookas, the crack of anti-aircraft cannon, and the short, chattering bursts of machine guns...
...difference: campaigning for a third Senate term, the Keef was running scared. Bird-dogging him was the combined specter of a man and an issue that might well keep Estes Kefauver at home next year. The man was Circuit Judge Andrew ("Tip") Taylor, bombastic relic of the Crump machine and no-quarter segregationist. The issue was civil rights...
...songwriter because the "songs of the South ware pinin' to be written"; of bronchial pneumonia; in Manhattan. The son of emancipated slaves. Handy was born in an Alabama log cabin. The Memphis Blues, written in 1909 to abet the first mayoralty campaign of Memphis' Edward H. ("Boss") Crump, started his career in jazz writing. This month, St. Louis Blues, a fictionalized film biography of Handy's life, will be released by Paramount Pictures...