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...tidied her shack, bathed her, dressed her in clean clothes and tucked her into a clean bed. When they called next day, they found the old woman and her bed back in the familiar rags. "I just wasn't comfortable," she explained. "I'll have to git used to them clean clothes gradual...
...Git Along. In San Diego, a discouraged broncobuster advertised for sale a "Western saddle, bridle, blanket and halter; rope, block and tackle, wheel chair...
...Git gat gittle, giddle-di-ap, giddle-de-tommy, riddle de biddle de roop, da-reep, fa-san, skeedle de woo-da, fiddle de wada, reep...
Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives, 36, a jolly, round (270 Ibs.) "git-tar"-strumming balladeer, sang it on the radio, in nightclubs, on records and on Broadway (Sing Out, Sweet Land!). He made it a hit, and it helped make him one. He called it an "insect song," just one of 350 ballads he had picked up while bumming around the U.S. singing (TIME, July 27, 1942). This month The Blue-Tail Fly turned up in a Burl Ives collection of rediscovered ballads (The Wayfarin' Stranger; Leeds Music Corp., $1). And last week Burl sang it for the movies. Only...
...Howard's knottiest problem, has been moonshining. One of his book's most poignant chapters concerns his watch by the bedside of a delirious 14-year-old boy dying in agony of fusel-oil poisoning after drinking moonshine. The boy's eyeballs bled and he screamed: "Git my eyes, Pappy; they's rollin' off the bed." When the boy died, Preacher Howard had a hard time dissuading an uncle from going out with his shotgun to find the man who gave the boy the liquor. Said the uncle after Howard prayed and pleaded with...