Word: hillbillyism
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Phil Ball, a big cold-storage man, dropped $500,000 in five years. Donald Barnes, shrewd finance-man, gave it a whirl, got out while the getting was good. In 1945 Coal-&-Iceman Dick Muckerman stepped in. Save for the wartime year 1944, when the Browns surprised everybody by winning...
After Bach comes a program of Beethoven, followed by post-Beethoven music and requests. Gilbert and Sullivan will glut the air waves on Saturday night, and Sunday morning ushers in a ballad corner catering to hillbilly fans. When the merry-go-round will cease had not been decided.
Four years later, in Number One, Dos Passos picked up the story of Glenn's brother, Tyler, who lost his soul through power-hungry cynicism. After working as political handyman for a hillbilly demagogue, Tyler found himself as defeated in America as Glenn had been in Spain.
Reading period witnesses the appearance of the orgies, the time when Networkers successively play hours of Beethoven, Brahms, Gilbert, and Sullivan, hillbilly songs, and jazz until the drop exhausted on the eve of examination period.
Partly because it is never too busy to see people, the Scripps-Howard Press has become the biggest, richest and most influential paper in Cleveland. Its red carpet is always out for readers, whether they come with a complaint, a hillbilly band or (it has happened) leading a bear, a...