Word: lifes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years ago, Jimmie Driftwood was getting along on $3,200 as principal of the Snowball, Ark. high school. Although he had been singing, composing and collecting folk material all his life ("I sometimes feel like a bunch of musical nerves without any steerage"), he did not try to go commercial until two years ago, when a local music-store owner heard him sing The Battle of New Orleans and sent him to a folk-song-conscious music publisher in Nashville, Tenn. The song took off in half a dozen different records, which stood to earn Jimmie more than...
...Three Bells (The Browns; RCA). One of the nation's top-selling ballads recounts in lugubrious accents the short, unhappy life of a mountain lad named Little Jimmy Brown ("Just a lonely bell was ringing/In the little village town/ 'Twas farewell it was ringing/For Little Jimmy Brown"). Hearts and faded flowers...
...wants him to help form joint U.S.-Mexican battalions to go after the Apaches, the Texas Rangers want to give him a job, and the major's estranged wife (Julie London) just wants him. Mitchum begs her not to seduce him and hurt his opportunity for a new life. Before she has a chance, Mitchum kills another villain and nervously flees to Mexico for the second time...
...Japanese "B" in eastern Asia; Murray Valley Fever in Australia; Mayaro and Ilheus in South and Central America; dengue in India and the West Indies; Chikungunya in Africa; Omsk hemorrhagic fever in Russia. Only a few of the forms circulate widely, even fewer represent great danger to human life. The virulent Japanese "B" variety has been spread across Asia by migrating herons, sometimes affects thousands in a summer. Some 2,800 died in Japan and Korea last year; another epidemic this summer has killed 500 in Korea alone...
...ailment's cause (whether emotional or organic), but the authors argue otherwise. Their conclusion: Because psychological problems may be the dominant factor in many cases of hiccups, hypnosis can be a most effective treatment, especially when surgery is impracticable or when the spasms are a danger to life...