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...Gin on the Cuff. Cary knows what he is writing about. During World War I he fought through the Cameroons campaign as an officer in a Nigerian regiment, later became magistrate of a district deep in the bush. Of the four novels that have come out of his African experience, Mister Johnson is the best, at once humorous and sympathetic, fresh and exuberant as Negro gossip...
Johnson just can't help acting like a big shot. What he imagines, he believes, and his imagination works overtime. His parties are the biggest in the town of Fada, with plenty of gin and beer bought on the cuff, and clearly audible at two miles. He boasts about his imagined friendship with the British District Officer, and is delighted to hear that that dignitary's wife is coming from England to join him. Johnson has no idea what the woman looks like, but he has no trouble, on that account, describing her to Bamu: "Her cheeks...
Jimmy flipped through vaudeville with the buck & wing before he was 15. Then he settled down in Chicago's Negro section, began playing the piano in speakeasies, sometimes for drinks, sometimes for money. He was a familiar guest at gin fests and rent parties. Gradually, he developed his slow-rolling boogie, and the style caught on. Some of his imitators learned to play it better, but with Jimmy the important thing was what you had to say, not how you said...
...eleven weeks Florence Chadwick waited in Dover to try. In a little seaside hotel she fortified her 140 Ibs. on a starchy English diet, gobbled calorie-packed fudge and ice cream between meals, swam three or four hours every day. After an evening of gin rummy, she turned in promptly at 9:30. As the weeks wore on, with no slackening of the rough waters, Florence would stare gloomily out the window at the spiteful grey...
...ancient (somewhere between 43 and 51) Pitcher Satchel Paige, brought back from the Negro American league this season to throw his "nuthin' ball" for the St. Louis Browns. How did he keep in shape? To an impressed audience Satchel explained that he started early by avoiding beer, whisky, gin, tea, coffee, chicken livers and lamb. If you smoke, he added, don't inhale. "I just blows it out my nose." Playing ball in the summer, hunting every day in winter, also help. "I've got to keep my legs good because if your legs go bad your...