Word: maughan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sirs: You say (TIME, Nov. 16) that General Doolittle "was first to span the continent in a single day." Is that statement correct? ... I rely on memory alone; but it has been my understanding that about 20 years ago the feat credited to General Doolittle was accomplished by Earl Maughan. . . . Let credit be awarded to the one who earned...
...Louis, Author Carl Carmer, "Daddy of the Blues" W. C. Handy-did not know it. Apparently it was never published. But Cincinnati rivermen remembered Hot Shot, so did Captain D. T. Wright of the Waterways Journal in St. Louis. Two Memphis experts-Joe Curtis and Charles L. Maughan-narrowed the authorship of the song down to a blind Missouri Negro who sang at boat landings around 1914. Of the music, nobody remembered a note...