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...contributed to the flooding, although most experts blamed the downpour on unusual atmospheric conditions. But to a gratifying degree, the people of Rapid City and their neighbors forged new human bonds in a time of great need. "It's amazing how this brought people together," observed Mrs. Virginia Tanner, who took in a widowed mother's family of seven even though her house was already filled by her own family of five...
...entirely on field recordings made by commercial record companies and the Library of Congress during the period between 1925 and 1935. The Ramblers play almost the entire range of American folk instruments (mouth bow, harmonica, autoharp, fiddle, banjo, mandolin, guitar), in the styles used by such groups as Gid Tanner and his Skillet Lickers, Byrd Moore and his Hot Shots, and Dr. Humphrey Bate and the Possum Hunters, to name but a few of the groups from which the Ramblers derive their repertoire. They play old breakdowns, sing ballads, party songs--in short, whatever the mountain people played...
Wallace is but one of dozens of minority-group small businessmen whom Dunphy and his team have launched. Dunphy sold his own prosperous paper-bag business to the Hammermill Co. in 1968; he now works for the Sealed Air Corp. He joined his former business school roommate, Harold Tanner, in forming a group of top-and middle-level executives who spend five to 15 hours a week helping minority businessmen turn a profit. Says Dunphy: "Jobs and education are still the main event in aiding minority groups in America. But small business is the most difficult field to open compared...
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Today, bartering is more lucrative than jingle making. Sixteen different divisions of the company are constantly trading off radio spots for Cadillacs, fur coats, Las Vegas hotel space and airline credit. Currently, Pepper & Tanner has at its disposal $27 million worth of spot time on U.S. stations. Last year the corporation grossed upwards of $40 million...