Word: motorman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...jazz-loving King Bhumibol and his Queen, the Duke had just spooned into his dessert when the background musicians, a championship jazz group from North Texas State University, ventured into Take the A Train, Ellington's theme song. Excusing himself from the table, the Duke moved into the motorman's seat at the piano, got the collegians home without missing a signal. What did he think of the young band? asked the King. "I wish it were mine," deadpanned the maestro...
These questions seek not an answer but a reassurance; not truth, but comfort. McKissick answered in kind: "I was three years old, and pushed to the back of the bus. I wanted to watch the motorman like the other kids. Why couldn't I? I hadn't done anything. I wanted to know...
...blister can be scooped up and taken out to any one of more than a dozen trolley museums. He can see the long, spring-mounted pole that held the round grooved wheel ^That's the trolley") against the overhead electric wire. He can see where the motorman stood, his foot on the button that rang the bell ("One clang for stopping, two for starting"). He will also learn, if he listens, that by 1918 the bobbed-hair and spats set had their pick of some 100,000 trolleys and 45,000 miles of track to take them...
...Well, they had these long things at the back, and when the motorman...
...Granddaddy, what's a motorman...