Word: hillbillyism
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"Je cherche une fille!" the crowd roars back, and plainclothesmen throughout the hall go up onto the balls of their feet for fear the next quiver may start World War III. Singing easily, about half the time in English, he is more reserved than Presley ("I used to flop down...
Niles cast his spell as much with his introductions and manner as with his singing. There is a bit of Barnum in him; no, a big hunk of Barnum. Woven in with this is a strain of the hillbilly preacher. And over these basic characteristics floats the unmistakable, delightful smell...
Toward sundown. Announcer Paul Kal-linger hunches on the edge of a straight-backed chair, unplugs his mellifluous bass voice, lets it pour into the microphone. "How do you do? How do you do? How do you do? If you've just joined us. we're sure glad...
A dugout cutup, Lary was nicknamed "Taters" by Tiger teammates because he once wrote "taters" on a dining-car order blank, is a guitar-strumming hillbilly singer on an Alabama radio station in the off season. But Lary is not an ambitionless rube. He hopes to quit with his pension...
Ma & Pappy. Ma returned happily to her garden and her family, and when, in 1932, her husband told her it was time to run again, she reportedly wept for three nights. But she gamely took off her apron and returned to politics, winning a second lackluster term by 3,000...