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Cornwall's huntsmen stiffened in their saddles. "I never heard a hunted fox scream in my life," snorted Captain George Percival Williams, Master of the Four Burrow Hunt. Captain Williams stoutly denied that the fox was alive when the hounds touched it. "I was blowing my horn and everybody was making a devil of a row." Then he sued the vicar for libel. In court, Mr. Craven-Sands apologized to Captain Williams; he said that he had been wrong in believing that the fox was alive when thrown to the hounds. Mr. Gilbert Beyfus, counsel for Captain Williams, said...
...brown-skinned man with the golden horn pursed his scarred lips, blew a short stream of incredibly high, shining notes and then carefully laid the trumpet down. "There's a thing I've dreamed of all my life," he graveled, "and I'll be damned if it don't look like it's about to come true-to be King of the Zulus' Parade. After that I'll be ready...
...five-and six-man combinations in which Armstrong has worked much of his life, he has had to earn that kind of praise-and without the carefully arranged six-and eight-horn brass choirs of the big bands to smother sour notes for him. Playing without written arrangements, bending the melody around on his own, then blending in with the others when the clarinet or trombone soars off on the lead, Louis has wrung raves even from longer-haired critics. The New York Herald Tribune's Virgil Thomson once said that Louis' style of improvisation made...
...demand for Indian scouts being low, 93-year-old Ben Buffalo, who was with Custer before the Battle of the Little Big Horn, applied for unemployment compensation in Ohio...
...Freddie's column casually mentioned an obscure and unappetizing Los Angeles weekly called Hollywood Nite Life. It was nothing but a "brash, often spiteful publication," he wrote, and its swart and droopy-lidded publisher, one Jimmy Tarantino, struck him as a man who liked to toot his own horn...