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...pack up their axes, but the Handymen-Guitarist Gerry Hahn, Violinist Mike White, Drummer Terry Clarke and Bassist Don Thompson-rallied with some surprises of their own. Turning to Handy's Scheme No. I, they erupted in a dreamy and delirious atonal free-for-all, creating a great whirl of sound, like a radio with the dial spinning at peak volume. Handy, looking like a Chinese Pope in his foot-high brocade hat, sketched high looping solos that trembled and fluttered. When it was over, the sellout crowd of 7,000 turned on a standing ovation that would have...
Nicely-Nicely Johnson. From then on, it was a whirl of receptions and dinners. Imelda, dressed for each occasion in one of 40 butterfly-sleeved Filipino ter-nos that she had brought along, was usually the center of attention. Her yellow terno caught Lyndon Johnson's eye. "That is my favorite color too-yellow," he told her. "Actually," she confided later, "my favorite color is pink. But he is the President...
...only unhappy part of his life," writes Randolph about his father. "The neglect and lack of interest shown by his parents were remarkable." Winny constantly begged "Mummy and Papa" to visit him at school, but "Lord Randolph was a busy politician; Lady Randolph was caught up in the whirl of fashionable society." The biographer, who himself suffered from having a busy famous father, concludes that parental indifference forced Winston early "to stand on his own feet...
...misshapen by old ideas and old prejudices. I don't know what's 'impossible' to do, and so I go ahead and try to do it. Will it work? I don't know, but I'm damn sure going to give it a whirl...
...young children in a comfortable rented house on N Street in Georgetown. After a few months, 30-year-old Eleanor Roosevelt, even then a woman of wide and active interests, found it difficult to manage a household while keeping up with the capital's intellectual and social whirl. She hired a social secretary to work, as she later recalled, "three mornings a week." Her new helper was tall, strikingly attractive Lucy Page Mercer, 22, the daughter of a socially impeccable Maryland family that had lately fallen on hard times. To Roosevelt, then 31, Lucy Mercer became far more than...