Word: duvallon
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...story has it that the people of Bessans began whittling devils in the 14th Century to commemorate a home-town boy named Duvallon, who sold his soul to Satan on a Christmas night. For 50 years thereafter, Duvallon was able to tote huge pine trees about on his shoulders and to float up & down the River Arc in a magic, unsinkable jacket. Satan at last came to collect, of course, suffused with devilish glee. Duvallon slipped his wife's wedding ring on his own finger for protection, jumped on his horse and galloped off to Rome. The Pope prescribed...
Charlie Vinal, Johnny Windhurst, and Ev Schwarz appeared last Sunday at the Jazz Club's ninth session of the season, with George Lugg coming up from New York to lend his trombone to the ensemble. George is currently with Ed Farley's band (which includes Rod Cless and Ken Duvallon of the old Art Hodes Columbia Five which served "Clarinet Marmalade" with bacon and eggs at Childs' 03rd Street Restaurant in New York). Lugg will be going to Canada for the rest of the month with the Farley band, and then opening at the Tic Toc here in town after...
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