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...Nashville, Tenn., one of the local mills advertises a self-rising ingredient for flour and meal known as Hot Rize. For the past nine years, the fortunes of Hot Rize have been rising with a couple of hillbillies-Banjo Player Earl Scruggs and Guitarist Lester Flatt-whose musical style on Grand Ole Opry is uncannily like the gassy product they represent on the show. Scruggs and Flatt are the country's leading practitioners of a particularly corny style of country music known as "bluegrass." And, thanks in large measure to the efforts of the twanging pair, bluegrass is enjoying...
...make law by simple proclamation, and when James I assured him that he would "ever protect the common law," Coke retorted sharply: "The common law protecteth the King." The enraged James went at him "with bended fist, offering to strike," reported a chronicler, "Which the Lo. Cooke perceaving fell flatt on all fower; humbly beseeching his Majestic to take compassion...