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...baiting challenge from Birt before the birthday party and a telling jest in one of the songs sung that night in Frost's honor. To the tune of Love and Marriage, it went: "Frost and Nixon, Frost and Nixon/ There's an act that's gonna need some fixin...
...Jazz Vibraharpist Lionel Hampton, is a campaign song. Collaborating with Elizabeth Firestone, daughter of Tire Tycoon Harvey Firestone, Hampton has whipped up a 32-bar opus called We Need Nixon. Its conclusion: "In him and God we place our trust. Our man is Nixon, he's right on! Fixin' a better world for all of us." During performances with the Hampton Jazz Inner Circle, the composer passes out singles of his new ditty while the boys play Hampton specialties. What happens when Democrats disapprove of his offering? "Oh," says Hampton's manager, "for them we play...
...fires that swept the Pacific Northwest, last December the California food-processing company offered to plant a seedling tree in the fire-ravaged forests in the name of anyone who sent in a label or code number from a can of its Big John's Beans 'n Fixin's. More than 200,000 requests were received in ten months, and an equivalent number of Ponderosa pine seedlings were planted in Washington's Wenatchee National Forest. The company mailed out a certificate to each respondent in the name of Hunt-Wesson and the U.S. Forest Service stating...
Feel Like I'm Fixin...
...back. They all jumped out, and I saw to my horror that they were Klansmen. Uniformed ones. This all seemed a little absurd; what had I really done? At the time, though, the "absurdity" was nudged out by a more persistent thought: I Feel Like I'm Fixin' to Die. I sat still in the car as they gathered around...