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...imminent danger of extinction. ("It is time for a major blues crusade! Is it right that a great artiste should have to die for his music to be acknowledged?") The English have long proved that they can master American idioms, and Mayall is no exception. He can weep, holler and groan with the best, and though he pleads that his fan mail be sent to Godalming, Surrey, most listeners will wonder if it shouldn't go to Biloxi...
Unlike many Harvard coaches, on the other hand, Park is a holler guy. "I don't try to be a phony with the players," he said. "I tell them what's in my heart. I tell them what I believe." It is the conviction that a team which is only at half-strength physically, but is emotionally ready, will decimate an able-bodied but flat opponent...
...study desert ecology. A comparative religion course came alive through visits to Catholic Masses, Seventh-Day Adventist services, even a Satanic Church in San Francisco. They can study anything they choose on their own, and no one cares whether they attend class. "I just go down there and holler at nine in the morning," says Math Teacher Ray Ditman, "and if nobody shows up, I go back home...
Much later, during the Truman Administration, Bob told his radio audience: "I loved the April Fools' gag a fellow pulled in Washington. He walked into the White House and said he was from Missouri, and before he could holler 'April fool!' he was a Cabinet member." By that time, Hope and his sidekicks-popeyed, siren-throated Jerry Colonna, Brenda and Cobina, and Bandleader Skinnay Ennis-had turned Tuesday into Bob Hope night in the U.S. Every Wednesday morning in those days, the Dow-Jones stock ticker used to carry the best of his jokes. During...
...knowledgeable observers are aware of its value. "No matter who is shouting for Negro rights in the streets," says Clarence Hunter, spokesman for the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, "you must still have Young to go inside and deal for the jobs and the training." Says Young: "You can holler, protest, march, picket and demonstrate, but somebody must be able to sit in on the strategy conferences and plot a course." Though the Urban League has in many ways changed almost beyond recognition from the National League on Urban Conditions among Negroes that was set up in New York...