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Early last year John Avery Lomax, crack compiler of U. S. folk songs, arrived in Manhattan with a big, wild-eyed Negro known as Lead Belly (real name: Huddie Ledbetter). John Lomax' protègé was a murderer, but he was also a natural-born minstrel. From a Texas jail he won his pardon by singing a petition to onetime Governor Pat Neff. In the Louisiana swamplands his knife made more trouble. Again he was imprisoned, again got out with a song when John Lomax made a phonograph record of it, submitted it personally to the late Governor...
Other speakers in this series of lectures have been Robert Frost, John Lomax, Archibald MacLeish, and James Stevens. They were conducted by Widener Library until two years ago, but Robert S. Hillyer '17, associate professor of English, is in charge of the present lecture...
...Lead-Belly," 12-string guitar artist, will perform before Leverett diners tonight in the Dining Room. Mr. Huddio Ledbetter, more familiarly "Lead-Belly," was discovered by John A. Lomax in his search for folk songs. All available places at this dinner have been reserved by House members for themselves and their guests...
Lead Belly, whose registered name is Huddie Ledbetter, was discovered by John A. Lomax, collector and editor of folk songs and ballads. Mr. Lomax has searched for Folk Songs in the South and the Southwest, and has been aided by a Carnegie grant in making records...
Hunting for "reels" and "sinful songs," Mr. Lomax found that the penitentiaries were the most fruitful places. He took a recording of one of Lead Belly's musical pleas for pardon to Governor O. K. Allen of Louisiana and a month later the darky got a pardon...