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...four or five men. To mount last week's concert, Price had to rent some of his gaudier noisemakers, but one favorite set of instruments he already had on hand: the eight Ford and Chevrolet brake drums that he picked up two years ago in an automobile junk yard. Still missing from the ensemble's instrument list: the jawbone...
...serious blow in this department was the recent loss of left-handed junk-baller Gerry Emmet. Emmet had two or three fine games to his credit last year and might have been the top Crimson pitcher this spring. However, he injured his shoulder playing for the squash team during the winter months, and is now a very shaky prospect at best...
...alone, when he arrived in 1906 from Russia. A gnome of a man, Charles Fraiman put a pack on his back and peddled old clothes from door to door in the outskirts of Philadelphia, until he had enough money to buy a horse and wagon and go into the junk business. He used to say he made $1.50 a day-50? for his horse, 50? for himself, and 50? for his savings...
...wells up around Beneatha, a girl of earnest intellectual fads. When a Nigerian boy friend introduces her to a bit of African lore, she promptly decks herself out as "the queen of the Nile," and whirls across the room to click off a jazz program ("Enough of this assimilationist junk...
...power of search on the high seas in peacetime." *Cable companies have had similar trouble with fishing trawlers for years. In cable legend, a Chinese fisherman is supposed to have once mistaken a heavy, metal-sheathed cable for gold; triumphantly, he hauled in yard after yard as his little junk slowly sank to the bottom...