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Though he is the one everyone remembers, Stephen Collins Foster was not the only U.S. songwriter of the 19th Century. This week a lesser, yet gifted writer of old-time songs, dead for 75 years, was honored by having his most famed song broadcast by many a radio station. The...
Songwriter Hanby was just the right age, 23 and a sophomore at small Otterbein College in Westerville, Ohio, when he wrote Darling Nelly Gray, in 1856. What caused it was a boyhood memory: when he was a child, a fugitive slave stopping at his father's house had told...
The volunteers, with almost no experience of revolvers, took to firing them in any direction, used them to kill flies. In most camps the soldiers did not think it necessary to dig latrines. Said one bored volunteer, eying the national capital: "Hardly worth defending, except for the éclat of...
One of the youngsters on the floor struck up a song: I'm a ramblin' wreck from Georgia Tech. The others joined in for a moment, then the song faded out. Another tried a ballad about a certain Nelly. That, too, died away. Around the tight, smiling lips...
Paul A. Lamothe Hatty Ulen, ArlingtonNewhold R. Landon Harrlet Watzon, Wellesley HillsRobert C. Lewis Mary Ann Fotheringham, fit. LouisPaul D. Littlefield Emmy Nelley, Bronzville, N. Y.Richard S. Loomis Emily Hizzell, Suffield, Conn,John Lowell Kleanor Truinhull, WestonHarrinon F. Lyman Nancy Delano, WabanPeter MacGowan Joyce Russell, Beverly Hills, Cal.John McLaughlin Joanne...