Word: stoves
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cannon strums his banjo by the coal stove in his little house just south of the railroad tracks in Memphis. He plays and sings the songs he wrote himself-songs like Madison Street Rag and Walk Right In. Half a century ago, he toured the South with a medicine show, but the last time he played downtown in Memphis, he went to jail. He was giving a sidewalk concert for handouts when "the policeman took me by the seat of my britches and put me in his car." A $26 fine was proof enough for Gus Cannon that...
...Cannon earned his keep by working as a yard man. Last winter the cold clamped down on Memphis. There was no work and no money, and Gus almost froze. When his stove went out in January, he hocked his banjo for $20 worth of coal. It was the first time that banjo had ever been out of his hands, and Gus Cannon's neighbors had to get used to nights without his music. But just when poverty seemed to have him silenced, at 79, the old man made it as a composer: a group called the Rooftop Singers recorded...
...stove, out lamp...
...Rick Kaminsky broke is hand Kaminsky also a second time All-Ivy player last season, will properly miss a few games when the schedule resumes in February, Meanwhile, the Yalies will have to depend on Denny Lynch, one of the smoothest guards in the league, 6 ft., 8 in, Stove Goulding and Dave Schumacher...
Gradually, this faith is destroyed. The gifts-money, a stove, earrings-that the tiger has lavished on his mother in the guise of promotion benefits from his job with the telegraph company are revealed to be thefts from the homes of whites. Moreover, he is a male prostitute catering to the jaded tastes of some of the richer white women in town. He hasn't delivered a telegram for years; the last one is on the wall, a fake he made up as a teenager to give his mother the comforting lie that she craved...