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...Nashville, 450 hillbilly disk jockeys, meeting to celebrate the 28th anniversary of radio's Grand Ole Opry, predicted that "country music" will eventually replace jazz. Explained California's John Banks: "When I started broadcasting seven years ago. there wasn't a hillbilly disk jockey within wagon-greasing distance. Now they're everywhere. It's what the people want...
...Ole! Ole!" cried the crowd...
Thanks for a good article, [but] TIME forgot a great symbol of progress in Dixie. Remember the politicians who used to rave: "D'ye want your daughter to marry a Negro? Then vote for ole Buzz Drippo for the U.S. Senate." Where is Buzz Drippo today? He's joined the dinosaurs in the museums...
Babe Didrikson was the sixth of seven children born to Ole Didrikson, a Norwegian ship's carpenter who sailed 19 times around the Horn before settling down in Port Arthur, Texas. A scrawny youngster, she rebelled against femininity; women were "sissies who wore girdles, bras and that junk." Instead of wasting time with dolls, Mildred Ella Didrikson exercised on a backyard weight-lifting machine built of broomsticks and her mother's flatirons. She beat boys at mumblety-peg, whizzed past them in foot races and razzle-dazzled them in basketball. Still in her teens, she burst into...
...CRIMSON had lots of competition; the Advocate, then a semi-weekly newsmagazine like the Crime, the daily "Harvard Echo," and the Daily Herald. In October 1883 the Crime and the Herald joined forces to emerge as the Herald-Crimson, then the Daily Crimson, and finally, in 1891, the plain-ole CRIMSON...