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...Workin' on the Railroad." For Squire Harriman, the swing through the west was educational as well as profitable. Without valet, in towns where tailor shops were locked for the night, the governor used an old technique of traveling salesmen: to ease out the wrinkles, he hung his suit in hotel bathrooms, turned on the hot water, let the room fill with wrinkle-removing steam...
...sentiments expressed in hillbilly music are far from subtle, but they are forthright ("I've been workin' hard the whole week long/But I'm gonna have some wine, women and song"), candid ("If she's a honkytonk angel, I'm the devil that made her that way"), sincere ("I mean a lot to my Mom and Pop/I just hope I mean somethin...
...Workin' at Our Trade." The victory brought Murphy just what he was looking for: a probable shot at the light-heavyweight (175-lb.) title held by Joey Maxim. The probability also goes to show the tangled state of U.S. boxing. Only four months ago, Seattle's Harry ("Kid") Matthews knocked the stuffing out of Murphy (one judge scored it 8-2). Since then, Matthews has knocked out two heavyweights and last week, far from the glamour of Yankee Stadium, he was knocking out another, Heavyweight (210 Ibs.) Bill Peterson in a Boise, Idaho arena. But Matthews...
...refused to sign a contract with I.B.C., the answer was expected. "The I.B.C. dictates who fights who and when and where. They're big business. But I'll fight; I'm trying to keep the independents [managers and boxers] in business . . . Better we stay out here, workin' at our trade...
...steps on Saturday mornings. When he was eleven, he also started a street quartet in which he sang tenor, picked up loose change by serenading through the red-light district. Says Armstrong: "A drunk come along, and maybe he'd give us a dollar. The grown folks were workin' for a dollar a day then." Only his mother was still calling him Little Louie. To everyone else he was Dippennouth or Satchelmouth. Satchelmouth was soon shortened to Satchmo, and it stuck. (Armstrong still favors the name, has emblazed it on his stationery. His specially blended cologne is Satchmo...