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Washboard & Jug. When representatives of a New York publisher turned up in Memphis in February to pay Gus for his old song, he was as cagey as he was surprised. ''I want my money," he kept saying, peering out over his dime-store glasses. For publishers' rights to the song, Vanguard Records gave him $500, plus the promise of a one-third cut in royalties if all goes well. Gus was also offered a recording contract to make an album for Atlantic Records' Stax label...
...turned on the TV set to catch the latest Cuba bulletins before breakfast one morning last week, John Ernst Steinbeck had no inkling that he had won this year's Nobel Prize for Literature while he slept. At a press conference a few hours later, ruddy-faced, jug-eared and bearded, John Steinbeck muttered that he "got splintered this morning" and still felt "wrapped and shellacked." Later, with tongue in cheek, he explained that wrapping and shellacking is the standard formula for repairing a cracked goldfish bowl...
...Jug of Corn. Mixing orchestra music, songs, plain talk, sentiment, shenanigans, commercials, and poems that would have embarrassed Edgar Guest. Breakfast Club is the salt of the air. The visiting audience is full of people who listen to McNeill every day without fail, and they feel no restraint about participating. One woman walked up to him during a show recently and hefted a likker pot toward him, drawling: "Ah brought you a small jug of corn from Alabama." "We got our own corn on this show," said...
...quietly entered into the public domain. Since 1958, the American Thermos Products Co. of Norwich, Conn., had been contesting the use of the word "thermos" by a competitor, Aladdin Industries Inc., of Nashville, Tenn. Ruling that American Thermos no longer held exclusive rights to the name of the jug no picnic can do without, the judge of the U.S. District Court in New Haven, Conn., pointed out that "thermos" had become generic largely through the efforts of the manufacturer himself over a period of many years...
Everybody fears Gut in Himmel. The old blacksmith says, "Dang your old liver pin." The props are out of the 1900 Sears, Roebuck catalogue - horsehair chairs, heaters with isinglass panes, Brussels car pets, claw-footed mahogany sideboards, a crokinole board. There's a rock-'n'-rye jug full of booze, rock candy, rusty nails, and rusty hinges...