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...Next door is a recording studio and a small listening booth. This is the physical plant of the Folklore Section of the Library of Congress. The secretary of this treasury - as well as collector, personnel manager and salesman - is a quiet, greying scholar of 47 named Duncan Black Macdonald Emrich, author of, among other things, Who Shot Maggie in the Freckle...
Souls of Dead Miners. Duncan Emrich, whose parents were Congregationalist missionaries, was born in Turkey and lived in Istanbul until he was 16. He went to Phillips Academy and soon began picking up degrees - from Brown University (A.B.) and Columbia (M.A.) in English, from the University of Madrid (D. en L. ) in Medieval Spanish and Arabic, from Harvard (Ph.D.) for a thesis on the Arabian philosopher Avicenna. In 1940 he moved to the University of Denver as an assistant professor. This changed everything...
Denver offered little that was stimulating in Emrich's hobby of Arabic but much in the field of folk music. Drinking in the splintery, bare saloons of the lonely valley towns, he heard and delighted in the hoarse old songs of the gold prospectors and the mining camps...
Folk songs, as Emrich has since discovered, cover a multitude of sins - historical and otherwise. To the accompaniment of fiddles, banjos, guitars, dulcimers, bottles, tin cans and washboards, one can hear love songs, laments and domestic satires...
After deep thought, Hollywood Art Director Emrich Nicholson concluded that glamour girls look their best only against exactly the right backgrounds. For example, he said, Betty Grable shows up fine in a curlicued Louis XV setting, and Jane Russell seems to "go with a haystack." Nicholson found one exception: Ava Gardner. "With that face and figure? Heavens, she'd stand out in front of almost anything...