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...Jenkins, half of Sanders's big man tandem up front, will be in the Midwest tonight trying to earn one of Mr. Rhodes's recently-become-controversial scholarships. Harvard managed to change the Brown game from Saturday to Sunday night so Jenkins can be around to guard the Bruins' stringbean leaper Phil Brown. The B.C. contest couldn't be rescheduled and the Eagles' sophomore star Bob Carrington should be able to skyrocket his 20-points-a-game average...
...When Jack arrived on the scene, he didn't look much like an athlete. He was a big, tall stringbean," he said, adding, "You could blow him over with a good breath... As far as his football ability was concerned, he didn't have much physique to play that particular game...
...nearly every musician who has apprenticed with Bill Monroe has gone on to make a name for himself in the Blue Grass field. A partial list includes Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs, Don Reno, Mac Wiseman, Carter Stanley, Benny Martin, Sonny Osborne, Jimmy Martin. Clyde Moody, Jim Eanes, Gordon Terry. Stringbean and Chubby Wise. Shortly after Bill Monroe's music began to be heard other musicians saw the possibilities the music had and borrowed from it. The Stanley Brothers were the first group to do this, followed by Flatt and Scruggs and Reno and Smiley. Soon there were countless bands, both...
Extraordinary Nielsen. Emerging as the real stars of Hee Haw are some of the previously unknown supporting players, who are less polished rustics. Stringbean, the emaciated chap who appears with the puppet crow on his shoulder, can barely read, according to friends, and has to be taught lines by his wife. Junior Samples, the fat man (275 Ibs.), professed to have nothing to wear but his "Sunday overalls" at a CBS celebration party. Introduced to a key network executive-"Junior, this is the vice president"-Junior ingenuously responded: "Hello, Mr. Agnew...
...Buck Owens and His Buckaroos and Roy Clark will sing and pick and fiddle over the summer months, backed up by other country-and-Western performers like Grandpa Jones, Stringbean, Conway Twitty, Tammy Wynette, Sonny James and Jerry Lee Lewis...