Word: guitars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...personal significance. Perhaps it is a plaintive wail in his voice, perhaps it is the way he takes a note and releases it as though it were a word that carries a meaning for the first time. Certainly it has something to do with the way he handles his guitar, an instrument which brings an important supplementary voice to his work...
Richard Dyer-Bennet, famous balladier, sings, accompanied by his guitar, at Jordan Hall on Sunday afternoon...
...Kristiansand, Norway, to Norwegian-born Annelise Sorensen. Two daughters and a son: Grace, 19, Joan, 15, and Christopher, 2. In appearance, balding and wiry (5 ft. 11 ½ in., 160 Ibs.) ; retiring, scholarly and shy. For relaxation he most enjoys: reading (favorites: Tolstoy, Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Gibbon) ; piano and guitar; heavy outdoor work on his Pennsylvania farm...
...more than two drinks at a party, and always leaves at midnight, even parties where he is the host. His only excess is cigars. One of his favorite occupations is sit ting for long hours in his den strumming Gilbert & Sullivan (at which he is an expert) on his guitar. He is also an expert on the novels of Henry James. Having had hardly any for mal education, Groucho, by dint of greedy reading, has made himself a well-read man. His friends are endlessly amazed at his mastery of the contents of magazines which they regard as highbrow (Atlantic...
More and more, the meetings have ended in volence. Several Sundays ago, a group of hymn-singing, guitar-playing evangelists started up with a mike (Feeney uses none) about 30 yards away. Feeney began mocking their sermon, but eventually the noise was too loud for even him to overcome...