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More Nickels. On the heels of Nashville 1283 came Nashville 1284. The arrangement took three minutes, 25 seconds -a bit too long ("The jukebox operators like them short-they get more nickels that way"). So the recorders dropped one verse, picked the off-the-cuff title Let Old Mother Nature Have Her Way. Then they casually continued their session...
...neat bit of off-the-cuff campaigning, and was calculated-like his "hope" of making a cross-country give-'em-hell speaking tour this spring or summer-to gladden the hearts of the Democratic bigwigs who met in Denver last week to beat the drums for '52. Politics, like June, was bustin' out all over...
...began with a morning speech in the Hotel Statler's big grey and white Presidential Room; after only a minute or so of following a prepared text, he laid it aside, lifted his head, began to bounce on his heels and launched a burst of off-the-cuff oratory...
...helped carry it out: he saw in it a magnificent and practical weapon against the British. But he would never accept the moral principle underlying nonviolence, i.e., that it is more blessed to be hit than to hit. (Nehru has been known to get off a political platform to cuff unruly listeners...
...intruder threw clothes out of drawers and closets, apparently looking for his size. During his hunt, he dropped a pair of cuff links, which belonged to none of the occupants...