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Deep Sea Chanteys and Sod Buster Ballads (Almanac Singers; two General albums). In the former, the vagrant, gusty Almanackers toss off Blow the Man Down, Blow Ye Winds High-O, etc. The other set is a random survey of such Americana as Ground Hog ("Up comes Sal with a snicker and a grin, Ground Hog grease all over her chin...
Free. In Little Rock, a cop brought in a vagrant. "Who are you?" asked the desk sergeant. "I am a Free Frenchman," said the man. "You were a free Frenchman," corrected the sergeant...
...house and believes it is they who sometimes spell out her name in flowers on the floor (actually it is just Brother, assisting the family poesy). Brother (Eugene Loring) writes "books"-each consisting of a single pregnant word. One "book" reads "tree." He can also "hear" another vagrant brother in New York playing Paul Whiteman's old waltz, Wonderful One, on the cornet. A shy official arrives, bent on canceling the pension check, but is so beglamored by the fey, bemused life of the household that he arranges to have the payments continued. An old laborer and the parish...
...born son of a Manhattan newspaperman who died when Hayden was nine, he went to school in Maine, then went to sea. In a Boston fisherman he spent two years on the Grand Banks. For a few months he took fishing parties out of Gloucester on his own yacht, Vagrant, got his master's papers while he was working as a fireman aboard the steamship Florida between Miami and Havana...
...Navy as long as Roosevelt is dictator of the U. S. A." Tomas Godina, a U. S. born Mexican who had registered in Texas and later got hurt in a brawl, died hoping that other good men would not think he had dodged the draft. A Danish-born vagrant in Valhalla, N. Y., a wandering hitchhiker, a speeding motorist in Chicago, were caught without registration cards, held for Federal investigation...