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...syncopated cakewalking craze called ragtime was born just before the turn of the 20th Century and died in the blaze of jazz with World War I. To most jazz fans of today, it sounds like something still on the stalk. To bearded Jazz Pedant Rudi (Shining Trumpets) Blesh and Harriet Janis, it is "music of enduring worth, revolutionary in concept and development." In a rambling, diffuse, but "true story of an American music" published last week under the title They All Played Ragtime (Knopf; $4), Co-Authors Blesh and Janis lovingly tell the tale of "a song that came from...
...Idaho. Harriet ("Babe") Hansen, who at 50 is an experienced rancher, ex-sergeant in the WAC, forest ranger, and wilderness guide, won the Republican nomination for sheriff of Boise County. Said sturdy "Babe," who wears a 10-gallon hat, reportedly can pick the eye out of a grouse at 100 yds., and has shot 75 mountain lions: "I think I'm qualified...
...born tinker, Dallas' independent oilman Ben Barnett turned a onetime skating rink into a factory where he manufactures everything from children's play furniture to outdoor steak grills and toilet-paper holders. Last year his Harben Manufacturing Co. (named after Ben and his wife Harriet) grossed...
...syndicated "Pitching Horseshoes" last week, Columnist Billy Rose told a touching tale about an actress of bygone days whom he called Harriet Reeves. According to Rose, she was a prima donna who made many enemies by her scene-stealing and slights before a weak heart forced her to quit the stage. Then, told that she had only a few months to live, Harriet Reeves contritely determined to give an elaborate party for the people she had wronged. But on the appointed night "last summer," nobody came. After two hours of humiliating waiting, Harriet Reeves had a heart attack and died...
Readers less forgetful than Harriet Reeves promptly took Rose to task. Wasn't his tale the same as a short story of Evelyn Waugh's, first published in 1936 under the title "Bella Fleace Gave a Party'? Waugh's story told about a lonely, eccentric Irishwoman who had also resolved to give a ball for the neighbors she had so long neglected. None of the invited guests came. Concluded Waugh: "A day later she died. Mr. Banks [her heir] . . . spent a week sorting out her effects. Among them he found in her escritoire, stamped, addressed...