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...electrician in St. Louis, Foxx ran away to New York when he was 17, determined to break into show business. His first "club" was a street corner, where he played a washtub in a group named the Five Hip Cats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: All in the Black Family | 4/17/1972 | See Source »

...took to music young, and they were brought up singing and playing hymns and folk songs with their families. The only American, Levon, was playing mandolin, drums and guitar in his early teens, and once won first prize at a county fair, accompanied by his sister on a homemade washtub bass. Rick Danko, whose father is a Simcoe tobacco farmer, was given a mandolin at five and soon joined his three brothers at Saturday night musicales...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Down to Old Dixie and Back | 1/12/1970 | See Source »

...current exhibit, Spock has remodeled an old auditorium. One result is "Grandfather's Cellar," a nook that introduces children to the world their grandparents knew. It contains a washtub with hand wringer, a coffee grinder, butter churn, mechanical apple peeler and a 1927 Atwater-Kent radio-all in working order. In the Algonquin Indian exhibit, children who once learned about Indians by watching a movie and looking at artifacts now grind maize in stone mortars, chip arrowheads and munch dried berries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Youth: Spock's Museum | 11/8/1968 | See Source »

...doing it), relic collecting carries even more dangerous potential, for some of the shells dug up are still explosive. There is a cherished story among relic seekers about a South Carolina woman who for years had used four 100-lb. Union shells as a stand for her backyard washtub until one day one exploded, blasting wet clothes all over the neighborhood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hobbies: The Souvenir Detectors | 3/24/1967 | See Source »

Hanratty and Seymour are not just a cup: they are a whole washtub-just what Ara ordered to flood new life into his Notre Dame attack, and maybe, just maybe, spark the Irish to the national championship he has been pining for ever since that last-game loss to Southern Cal knocked Notre Dame out of the No. 1 spot in the 1964 rankings. "Sure I want the title," Parseghian admits. "What else is there to shoot for, since we don't belong to any conference or go to post-season bowls?" In the meantime, though, he is playing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: College Football: Babes in Wonderland | 10/28/1966 | See Source »

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