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Kneed in the Guts. Dylan was born in Duluth but spent most of his youth in Hibbing, Minn. He started playing the guitar when he was ten, he says, adding that "the only trouble with playin' guitar is that you can't get the cheerleader girls." He ran away from home at 10, 12, 13, IS, 151) 17 and 18; he was, as he says, "caught an' brought back all but once." In his self-portrait in verse, My Life in a Stolen Minute, he recalls the events of his youth...
...fellow pros. "Don't you worry about old Arnie," drawled Sam Snead. "'There ain't nothin' wrong with him that a two-stroke lead won't fix. He's just trying to sweet-talk that tough old course into lyin' down and playin' dead...
...Gleason for $100 in a close game of straight. "I'll bet you another hundred," said Gleason. Shuman then ran through 70 balls righthanded, 30 more lefthanded, and shut Gleason out cold in a 100-point game. "I don't know who the hell I'm playin', but he sure does all right under the name he's usin'," said Jackie Gleason-who had been hustled by Willie Mosconi, the world's pocket-billiard champion (and, later on, technical adviser to The Hustler...
...first that he wanted to be a baseball player, but there was too much music around. "My dad ran the community store, an informal meeting place for farm hands on Saturday afternoons," Charlie recalls. "Some would bring their guitars, and there would be a lot of singin', playin' and spittin' tobacco juice. It was a real stompin' brand of music." Charlie's father taught his son the guitar, and at twelve Charlie was playing on a local radio show. World War II saw Charlie in Special Services, touring Europe as an Army showman...
Maid: And my funeral ... I wanta go (gasp) the way I planned. Especially the four white horses and a band playin'. No mournin...