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FIRST MEETIN': LIGHTNIN' HOPKINS (World-Pacific). An almost too intimate conversation between four masters of the grassroots, deep-ground blues: Hopkins, Big Joe Williams, Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry. The tunes are marvelous-Ain't Nothin' Like Whisky, Penitentiary Blues, How Long Have It Been Since You've Been Home?-and the maestri preach to one another in song, shouts and helpless laughter...
...miracle. Dis is gwine be a restricting miracle on de Piety Test Rules, Miracle I, Section fifty-nine: 'Salvation by piety, dat is our aim.' Let de clause now read: 'Salvation by piety and extra-curricular activities, dat is our aim.' Ah'm gwine to throw a little lightnin bolt now to cleah up de red tape...
...resistance to death, famine and flood - the blind resilience peculiar to those with no hope to abandon except that of heaven. To borrow one of their own sayings, they are "blackgum against thunder," and that is something when a man knows that the blackgum tree is "so hard, when lightnin hit it, is a question of who win, the fire or the wood." The many ways in which the lightning of life strikes the country Negroes of Crooked Creek, and the ways in which they burn or win, form the substance of this book by Hoke Norris, a North Caro...
...Taurum forces soon include as engaging a set of oddballs as ever evaded a Saroyan play. There is Bill Kilk, "the twelfth-richest man in the country," who manufactures "KwiK, The Lightnin' LaKsative" and "Hairum-Skarum (takes the bristles off women's legs)." There is Merry Bell, Washington's hostess with the mostest billingsgate on the tip of her Bryn Mawr tongue. There is the wily "Eye." a private detective who flunked his FBI physical "because of dirty fingernails." and acts as a special investigator for the "Committee on the Disposition of Useless Documents." And there...
...Fleet's charge. Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson, in the immemorial manner of civilian service chiefs, did his best to back up his uniformed Washington subordinates; he read a brief statement declaring that the ammunition situation in Korea was improving. Army Chief of Staff General J. Lawton ("Lightnin' Joe") Collins implied that Van Fleet, like most combat commanders, had an insatiable appetite for ammunition. The fact is, said Collins, that in 1952 the Eighth Army fired an average of 62,616 rounds of mortar and artillery ammunition a day-nearly ten times the enemy's average daily...