Word: nothin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Folksy, derrick-sized Sid Williams Richardson, unlike some of his fellow Texas wheeler-dealers, never hunted publicity, often quoted one of his favorite maxims: "You ain't learnin' nothin' when you're talkin'!" His dry, country humor and his ability to translate a complex business or political situation into plain horse sense made him a number of friends, but never found him a wife. When needled about his bachelorhood, Richardson explained his private theory about life: "Do right and fear no man; don't write and fear no woman. They're all wantin...
...Specials strapped to his thighs, he really cuts the mustard with the teen-age cow bunnies. An exmarine, he is easily the most ambitious of television's men on horseback. He looks pretty silly on a horse ("That boy," says a Hollywood riding instructor, "can't ride nothin' wilder'n a wheelchair"), but Hugh knows how to hold his seat on a board of directors. Among his business interests: a building-equipment firm, a company that rents guns to TV westerns, a hotel, a line of men's toilet articles. Last year Hugh paid taxes...
...Basie (Paul Quinichette, tenor sax; Shad Collins, trumpet; Nat Pierce, piano; Freddie Greene, guitar; Walter Page, bass; Jo Jones, drums; Prestige). "Count don't play nothin'," said a Basie veteran once, "but it sure sounds good." This nostalgic album is a fine reminder of what that line meant. The selection of five Basie classics (including Texas Shuffle and Diggin' for Dex) is taken from the period 1937 to 1941 and played by three veterans of the Basie rhythm section...
...were 18 Egyptian Dragons in all, Negroes and whites. Eleven, aged 13 and 14, were shipped off to a reformatory as juvenile delinquents. The remaining seven, all of whom signed confessions, quietly waited out their trial. Some of them changed their stories ("I didn't see nobody do nothin' "), protested that they had been beaten into confessions by the police. Last week, after 24 hours of discussion, the jury wound up the city's longest murder trial (14 weeks, 6,000 pages of testimony). Verdict: three defendants were acquitted; two were convicted of murder in the second...
...clubs. "I'm in this business 21 years, and everyone always calls me a success, but how come I'm always borrowing money?" To that, a former associate replies: "Ben ain't in this to look at pretty girls in tights; he don't do nothin' that don't make money." Whatever else he may do, Club Owner Maksik looks like a guy who knows his Brooklyn...