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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Composers: I'm a Yard Man | 4/5/1963 | See Source »

...stove, out lamp...

Author: By R. ANDREW Beyer, | Title: San Francisco Poetry | 3/7/1963 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Steven V. Roberts, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 1/28/1963 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Wet Dynamite | 1/4/1963 | See Source »

...needs the National Observer?" asked the National Observer in an ad that answered its own question: "Affluent and influential people" who need color television sets, cars, European vacations and a new kitchen stove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Losing Ground | 12/7/1962 | See Source »

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