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...first person to arrive outside Des Moines' HyVee Center on Saturday morning - a mere seven hours before Oprah Winfrey would take the stage - was Heather Spurlin. Dressed for a long wait in snowy 12-degree weather, Spurlin, 37, is exactly the kind of person Barack Obama hoped Oprah would draw: a woman voter who knows what she's doing every day at 4pm, but isn't sure whom she'll support on Jan. 3. "Oprah's so personable and funny," said Spurlin, who's never caucused before but participated in an Obama campaign training session in order...
...real effect of Oprah on Iowa won't be known until the caucus, but in the short term her cameo appeared to achieve what the Obama campaign hoped it would. "Obama's got some really good ideas," said Spurlin at the end of the rally. "But then so does Hillary, and I liked her husband a lot." Sure enough, Bill Clinton will be in Des Moines on Monday, and Spurlin may go see him as well. If nothing else, Des Moines is drawing the A-List...
...section, and played in jazz combos. Musicians were always coming and going at the Hot Springs clubs, and the first blacks Clinton respected were jazz artists he heard and tried to emulate. Despite the joshing he takes now over his sporadic bouts with the saxophone, his band director, Virgil Spurlin, says he was very talented and dogged in his practice: "He could sight-read with the best, and he kept me busy finding scores for him to read." Music seemed a way to test the wider horizons offered in Hot Springs; despite excellent grades, he would be offered more musical...
Clinton was a reconciler in the home and outside it, the responsible one whom other adults treated like their own son. The bandleader Vergil Spurlin became especially important to Clinton, whose major interest at the time was music. Looking back now, Clinton says, "He was a real good man, real religious, spent a lot of time with his kids, cared a lot about them." He was everything Clinton's stepfather was not, and once Clinton startled Spurlin by saying he really did not have a daddy of his own. The inscriptions "Billy" put in Spurlin's yearbooks are eloquent...
...might seem a shade unsubtle even to the simple eye of Central Casting Office file clerk, and their names are something that S. J. Perelman would love to give a droll roll on his tongue. They include Bradwell Tolliver, Lettice Poindexter, Gomp ("Frog-eye") Drumm and Mortimer ["Jingle Bells") Spurlin. Everybody seems to go by a nickname in Fiddlersburg; even the electric chair in the local pen is called "Sukie...
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