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...those wise counselors who influenced our early lives." A gentle tear for the boys I left behind me. There is wit in "Solo in Tom-Toms," but the memoirs of a lesser journalist, though perhaps more lively than those of a prominent statesman, are scarcely important enough to trot out the long gray beard and the backward look...
...college, he conceived the idea of selling fox-trot lessons by mail, advertised in a pulp magazine: "How I Became Popular Overnight." When 40,000 people responded, Murray moved from Atlanta back to New York, decided the hoofing business was his business after...
Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm Hohenzollern, 65, chinless favorite of World War I caricaturists, received the press at his villa in Hechingen, let it be known that he missed the horses and golf of dear old Potsdam, that the House of Hohenzollern was ready to trot onstage at a moment's notice. Queried newsmen: did he mean son Louis Ferdinand? "Myself or my son," he corrected...
...Bakersfield dance last week was something special: Bob Wills was celebrating his 30th anniversary as a cowboy fiddler. For the occasion, he played his 35th new tune, a fox trot called G.I. Wish ("G.I. . . . wish that I were free to roam, G.I. wish that I were home"). It had the same kind of whine, the same kind of maudlin lyrics that put his Stars and Stripes on Iwo Jima and Smoke on the Water among the nation's top-selling folk records last year...
...unspectacular domestic life in the suburbs of London. A critic, essayist and novelist (A Clergyman's Daughter), Orwell contributes (in Britain) to his schoolmate Critic Cyril Connolly's highbrow monthly Horizon and to the leftist Tribune. In the U.S. his London Letter to Manhattan's Trot-skyoid quarterly Partisan RevIew has contained some of the war's most trenchant reporting on British politics, the Home Guard (Orwell was a member), black-market shenanigans...