Word: stringbeans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...show is a kind of nostalgic tribute to black performers who toured the pre-Depression South on the T.O.B.A. (Theater Owners Booking Agency) circuit. Fortunately, there is precious little vaudeville in One Mo' Time!and no imitations of greats like Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and Sweet Mama Stringbean, who made their early fame on the circuit. The setting is New Orleans' Lyric Theater. A backstage dressing-room drama, replete with the trials and tribulations of show biz and some seething personal rivalries, constitutes the subplot picture frame for the evening...
Justice, you say? Yes indeed. "McOsker pitched one of the top three or four games I've seen since I've been here. He made a mockery out of them," Park said, and the left-handed stringbean's nine strikeouts and only three hits in ten innings certainly back that statement...
...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...