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...with Kansas City's Democratic Boss Jim Pendergast (nephew and heir of Harry Truman's political mentor and sometime convict, the late Tom Pendergast). Yes, he had encouraged Jim Pendergast to throw his organization's support to one of Slaughter's two opponents: a politically unknown, young (37) lawyer named Axtell...
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...Armstrong blues vocal on "Long, Long Journey" should have been something to write home about because the old master of delayed action rhythm and bottom-of-the-well tonsilar gymnastics had not sung any blues for the wax machine since the Decca New Orleans album. For some unknown reason, however, although Satchelmouth's vocal cords seemed to be in the best of form, the record doesn't register. Arrangers of all-star recording sessions encounter innumerable difficulties, especially when they use original tunes. This time the synthetically blue lyric and melody of Mr. Feather's just weren't enough...
...Mary as well as her Martha side. From childhood she had the mystic's hunger for communion with God that gave everything she did the quality of prayer. Legends about her grew up in her lifetime: that she was saved from drowning as a child by an unknown hand; that a locked church door opened to her touch. It is said that a sister who shared her room once woke to find it flooded with a strange light. But the most revealing evidences of her inner life were the intimate notes she kept in her private journal...
Richard H. Gerard (real name: Richard G. Husch), virtually unknown author of Sweet Adeline's lyrics, retired in Manhattan at 70-to "knock off a few hits." The job he retired from: foreman of the application file bureau of the money order division at the General Post Office...