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...sizeable common room with a fireplace and three large windows looking out on Mass. Ave. So far, Brideshead Revisited. I walked to the center of the common room and saw three doors. Hey, I thought, I am right on the mark! Three bedrooms and a single for this earlybird. I slowly opened the first door, and in place of my desk, a sink, instead of a dresser, a tub, and alas, in the place of my bed, a toilet. It then dawned on me that Harvard had cheated me of my dream single...

Author: By Ji H. Min, | Title: A Bed and a Place to Call Home | 7/16/1985 | See Source »

...typify Eagles music. "Train Leaves Here This Morning," originally a Dillard & Clark Expedition song, aims at a country sound, particularly through a slide guitar solo, so soft and laden with vibrato, that it seems to be pedal steel. But its words are western. The same can be said for "Earlybird" whose "The eagle flies alone. He is free," is par for Eagles's songwriting. Musically, the simplicity of the bass line, the thin sound of drums, and in "Earlybird: the banjo and the faraway slide guitar, lend to a total sound that is remarkably unadorned...

Author: By Frederick Boyd, | Title: Take it Easy, But Take it From Somewhere | 10/5/1972 | See Source »

...Snapper Arthur ("Too Fat") Godfrey, CBS's earlybird disc jockey, spotted an unexplained washing machine in his studio one morning last week, casually gave it away to a woman in the studio audience. CBS's Winner Take All, which had been storing the washer in the studio, promptly cried thief. Grumped Godfrey: "That'll teach 'em to keep their junk off my show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Radio Set | 1/26/1948 | See Source »

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