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...brought a portable recording machine as far south as Savanah, Georgia and Hall left Florida as a member of a group under a Mr. Alonzo Ross to make his first record, "Blue Steel." To find a copy of the disc today would be like procuring one of those proverbial hen's teeth, but quite a few must have been circulated at the time because the whole group got a job at New York's famed taxi dance spot, the Roseland, soon afterwards. Edmond has been in and around New York ever since...
Some of the more spirited debates concern the personality of Superman; even shy children who clam up on everything else have strong opinions about the comics. Primary-graders talk about Cinderella, Dumbo and the Little Red Hen. More mature students may discuss the characters in Macbeth and how they got that...
...casual observers discovered long ago, the social hierarchy in a chicken yard is as rigid as at any Army post. Each hen has a fixed position in the "pecking order": the No. i hen may peck all other hens, be pecked by none. No. 2 pecks all except No. i, is pecked only by her. The hen at the bottom of the social order, pecked by all, pecks none. Roosters too have a pecking order, but each rooster may peck and attempt to mate with all the hens...
...houses of the little mining town of Mountain Ash were ugly and dirty as ever. But the faces of the miners, and their families, were scrubbed clean and the mines were idle. From the town rose loved Welsh songs like Jenny Jones, Men of Harlech and the Welsh anthem, Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau-meaning Land of My Fathers...
...each other; the gap between them was greater than ever. New Hampshire's Senator Charles Tobey angrily exhibited a peculiar example of Presidential rancor (see The Congress). At memorial services for Franklin Roosevelt in the House chamber this week, Senate Majority Leader Alben Barkley, ruffled as a wet hen over Harry Truman's rejection of his advice on the OPA bill, stiffly snubbed the President's overture of friendship. For Harry Truman's pat on his arm, the Kentucky Senator had only a formal...