Word: mule
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rage of the Northwest, The Frozen Logger, was written by a onetime mule skinner, hobo poet and bull cook named Jim Stevens, one of the first men to set the tall tales of Paul Bunyan down on paper (1925). He wrote the lyrics in 1928, borrowed the melody of an old ballad to go with them. He finally got it published last year, and the folk-singing Weavers picked it up and boosted it into popularity. So much popularity, says Stevens, 59, that "I hear some of the boys in the woods are beginning to use their thumbs...
...fairly say that Writer Williams has wasted Dr. Williams' time. The essays of In the American Grain, the novels White Mule and In the Money, and dozens of sudden flashes of warmth and light from his poetry are likely to be still valued when the last baby he delivers has reached Williams...
...ribs cracked when his horse fell on him two years ago, had another horse kick him in the shin last year, arrived in New Delhi after a hike through the Himalayan mountains. The record this time: one toss from a frisky yak, two falls from a mule. Damage: a sprained wrist, an aching back...
...Records get a big backlog of pop songs recorded, found he liked the work. In a short time, as repertory boss for Mercury, he had Vic Damone and Frankie Laine turning out smash hits, topped 1,000,000 copies apiece with such numbers as Cry of the Wild Goose, Mule Train, and Lucky Old Sun. Then came the move to the bigger job at Columbia...
...Like a mule on a treadmill, U.S. business was beginning to feel that it had to keep moving faster just to stand still. Last week Manhattan's National City Bank, totting up first half profits before taxes for 325 U.S. manufacturing corporations, reported a whopping increase of 51% over the 1950 period. But after taxes had been deducted, the net gain was only...