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...original blues, collected and classified by their indefatigable historian, Samuel Charters, and sung by some of the Southern Negroes who in the last 50 years developed the new form from the work songs of slave days. The recording includes singers like Sleepy John Estes, Bukka White, Peg Leg Howell, Ham Gravy, and Kokomo Arnold (with his wild falsetto). Not all the songs are as rural as Skip Jones's Little Cow and Calf Is Gonna Die Blues...
Lacking in plot, unevenly paced, and peopled with caricatures, "Love's Labour's Lost" is as much vaudeville as a comic valentine to the Renaissance theme of nature. And Hamlin is fortunate in four actors who ham it up delightfully...
...Gurney had not won a Grand Prix race in two years, and this was going to be a victory worth savoring. On the 28th lap, he blasted around the 8¾-mile course at 137.6 m.p.h.-breaking the old track record by more than 2 m.p.h. Then the Brab-ham's engine began to miss. Gurney screeched into the pits. "Gas!" he yelled-and imagine his surprise. There was no gas: fuel-company mathematicians had concluded that nobody would need to refuel. Frantically, Gurney wheeled his sputtering Brabham back onto the track. On the last lap, he ran completely...
Headier Stuff. Shoehorned into green-and-gilt chairs at dime-sized tables, last week's audience snacked on ham sand wiches, strawberry sundaes, champagne, beer, pink "Pops punch" and Fiedler's musical buffet-everything from a glass-rattling Sousa march ("to get everybody's attention") to a Mendelssohn concerto, a Strauss waltz, a Weber overture and a splash of lushly orchestrated show tunes. For surprise encores Vaudevillian Fiedler uncorked a brassy, off Beatle I Want to Hold Your Hand complete with handclapping and nasal chorus of "Yeah, Yeah, Yeah" from the string section, and a breezy Hello...
...Soulé made his U.S. debut at the French pavilion. Moreover, great Curnonskian meals absorb too much time. The smartest way to eat is to bring your own sandwiches or buy a quick one in a place like Liebmann Breweries' oldtime tavern, where a fast beer and a ham on rye cost...