Word: downs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Composer Modarelli had spent his spare time for months reading up on West Virginia's history and folk literature. To get more ideas he made trips up & down the Kanawha, which with its main tributaries winds on a 450-mile course through fertile farmland, timbered hills and industrial valleys...
A Special Audience. Satchmo was enthusiastic about the spaghetti and about some Italian mineral water he had found. "I was skoaling with everybody up there in Scandanavia," he explained, "and that schnapps tore my stomach up." He also expressed interest in Roman history: "They tell me that Nero had a...
Red Ties & Syncopation. At last week's convention Stamps-Baxter was much in evidence. One of its quartets, in blue suits and red ties, brought down the house with four new Stamps-Baxter songs: I'm Having a Good Time Here, Dreaming, with a falsetto blues-style solo...
Notre Dame's awesome football team went to Baltimore last week unescorted by the master, Frank Leahy. Without his restraining hand, there was no telling what havoc they would wreak on Navy. But Leahy, still wan from an attack of flu, showed up 43 minutes before the kickoff to...
The crowd, which seldom gets noisy until the last quarter-mile of a race, sensed that the climax would come early and set up a swelling roar. Then, suddenly, it was all over. With Capot saving ground on the rail, he nosed ahead on the turn. Coaltown tried but could...