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...Jerry Jeff Walker, one of the hard-drinking boys, takes the stage and barrels into a country rocker titled Gettin' By. Almost immediately a fistfight breaks out in one corner of the auditorium; dancing bursts out in another. Midway through Walker's set the pedal steel-guitar player takes over with a whining rendition of Dixie, The Battle Hymn of the Republic and America the Beautiful The crowd of 1,500 cheers, hoisting half-empty Lone Star beers toward the stage. Walker finishes his two-hour performance, then returns for an encore number, Pissin' in the Wind...
...rise began in 1970 when a slow-talking rancher and raconteur named Hondo Crouch bought up half the town, supposedly because of his unhappiness with the saloon's irregular hours. Soon the place was a laid-back, beer-stocked afternoon retreat for country musicians. Among them: Jerry Jeff Walker, who brought old pals like Willie Nelson by for a visit and in 1973 recorded his Viva Terlingua album there...
...repeat of the performance should not be expected, though, for the biggest story of the camp is not so much the seven guys who are there, but a couple who are not. Captain Jeff Campbell graduated, Rock Moulton--who nailed down the IC4A win by closing with a dramatic kick--is taking the year off, and worst of all, junior Peter Fitzsimmons is nursing a pair of very tender knees. Fitzsimmons has been all-Ivy the last two years, and he has always been at the center of what McCurdy calls the intangible factors so important to cross-country success...
...past decade or so, new columnists and cartoonists have, by dint of sheer talent, broken through and gathered a following. Among them: George Will and David Broder of the Washington Post Writers Group; Ellen Goodman, whose hip and compassionate Boston Globe commentary is also distributed by the Post Group; Jeff MacNelly, the Pulitzer-winning editorial cartoonist who next week will launch with the Trib-News syndicate a comic strip about a bird who edits a newspaper; New York News Funnyman Gerald Nachman (TIME, Aug. 23,1976); and, most recently, Jack Germond and Jules Witcover, a pair of Washington veterans whose...
...White House has intimidated many occupants in the past, but not the Carters of Plains. Declares Rosalynn: "This is home." She adds: "What made it easy was that we were all together again." "All" is the eight of them-the senior Carters, Amy, Jeff and Wife Annette, Chip and Wife Caron and five-month-old James Earl Carter IV-the most extended family to dwell in the Executive mansion since the expansive days of the Franklin Roosevelts. On a recent Saturday night, the President and First Lady volunteered to baby-sit. "Jimmy pushed the baby around the South Lawn," Rosalynn...