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Jerry (Harry Belafonte; Victor). The bopsinger-turned-folkstylist gets off this throbbing worksong about timber rolling and a cooperative mule...
Tiger Blood. Making moonshine is easy, and the profits are large. Racketeers copy the big distillers' methods. The pale, unaged liquid that results is "white light-nin'," "white mule," "Splo," or "tiger blood." Many a Southern countryman would rather drink it than store whisky. One lead-bellied Georgia farmer told a Treasury agent: "I bought legal once. Couldn't stand the stuff. Threw it to the hogs 'n they all died...
...food--eagerly pressed into the hands of the climbers by an enterprising cereal manufacturer--in the living room of the unhappy mother of one of the expedition's members. The expedition moves through the intricacies of Peruvian Customs, through dysentary, polluted drinking water, and a platoon of shifty-eyed mule skinners, solicitously endeavoring to part Los Alpinistos from their money...
...Reconstruction Finance Corp., which has grubstaked Kaiser-Frazer Corp. to some $50 million, last week decided to ride along on the mule as well. To K-F's board of directors, the RFC appointed their own representative,* 26-year-old Detroit Lawyer Alan E. Schwartz. A Harvard Law School graduate (1950) who had caught RFChairman Harry McDonald's eye when pleading cases before government bureaus, Schwartz will attend all of K-F's board meetings, keep tabs on the company's finances (K-F's losses in the past seven years: $53 million). Explained...
...nursing a "moderate concussion" and a wrenched right shoulder after taking a header from his horse on a San Simeon bridle path. German Conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler was forced to cancel the rest of his Salzburg Music Festival appearances after a bout of pneumonia. Hollywood's talking mule Francis was nursing bruised legs after her trailer jackknifed in traffic in Bridgeport, Conn...