Word: plowboy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Johnny was off visiting Sister Ellen in a road company of Gypsy. "He'd mouth all Merman's songs from the records," she remembers, "and he could dance every part." When he was nine, he got his first part in a local workshop production of Who'll Save the Plowboy? A retrospective appreciation from Mom: "He had only two or three lines, but he said them so meaningfully...
...still be belting it out in the 1990s, if the longevity of some of his older colleagues is any indication. Roy Acuff, dean of the Grand Ole Opry, is still going strong at 70. So are Bill Monroe, the father of bluegrass, at 62, and Eddy Arnold, the Tennessee Plowboy, at 55. "Country music fans are the most loyal there is," says Haggard. Besides, the open road, the one-night gigs, meeting people-all these make a way of life that Haggard would no more give up than he would casting for smallmouthed bass in a cold, clear, wilderness lake...
...heeerrre's Lefty!" Pandemonium again breaks loose, the band strikes up Hail to the Chief and out shuffles Charles Grice ("Lefty") Driesell, the loose, lanky (6ft. 4-in.) Maryland basketball coach. He is wearing a $250 double-knit suit and the "aw-shucks" grin of a plowboy at a tea dance, and when he casually flashes the awaited V-for-victory sign, the cheers resound all the louder. Lefty and his legions are ready for another game in their drive to become the nation's No. 1 college basketball team...
...last year-go into the Tyndale House Foundation to be dispensed to various causes, including some 60 foreign paraphrases currently under way or completed. Taylor, now 55, says his mission is simply that of 16th century Translator William Tyndale, who wanted to bring the Bible to "every plowboy." Says Taylor: "I'd like to emulate Tyndale in everything but his death." Tyndale, for his efforts, was strangled and then burned at the stake...