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Jazzy Exterminator. Until recently, it was even harder for anyone outside New Orleans to hear Hirt-mainly because the responsibility of a wife and eight children kept him from hitting the road. Son of a New Orleans policeman, he was given a pawnshop trumpet when he was six, studied classical music through high school, entered the Cincinnati Conservatory on a scholarship. At Cincinnati he noticed less gifted students picking up $5 a night for appearances with dance bands. The money, Al decided, lay outside the long-haired classics, and with the aid of Harry James and Roy Eldridge records...
...talk, the parochial Irish viewpoint that every historical event can be reduced to some Mrs. O'Leary's cow, and the fanciful delight in "Characters"-little Philsy Kerrigan, who once saved up a trunkful of doughnuts; Danny McGhee, who always slept in a maple tree; the midget policeman who caught the dwarf bandit...
...Jackson terminal the crowds were hanging out of the windows of nearby buildings. "Get your teams ready," said Lawson. In pairs, the Freedom Riders walked into the "white" waiting room. A Jackson policeman politely asked two Negro girls to move on, and when they refused, arrested them for causing a disturbance. In similar fashion the remaining Freedom Riders-one white and eleven black-were arrested, including eight who actually entered the white rest room before being led away...
...blocks farther on, police hailed down Trillin's rented car, said he had run a stop sign. They asked questions. What was his profession? Whom did he work for? What was he doing in Birmingham? When he said he was there to cover the race-relations story, a policeman asked, as if incredulous: "You mean you haven't any other reason for being here?" After 30 minutes, word came from a higher-up police official that Trillin could get off with only a $10 fine. He paid, and then moved on to another trouble spot. Montgomery, where...
Enter now the Providence police. In an attempt to enforce strictly the city's parking ordinances, officers cruise around on motorcycles during the day, marking the wheels of the parked cars with chalk. If the mark has not disappeared when the policeman returns in two hours, the student receives a blue ticket and a $3 over-parking fine...