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...told that he had emergency leave, in 15 minutes had started on the first leg of his trip to Germany. On the way, Charles Madeira, who had not seen his brother since they left their home town, Reading, Pa., a year and a half ago, had some reservations ("They ain't hacking off none of my skin for nobody"). Later he decided to go through with the operation: "He'd do the same thing for me-I hope...
...night last week, wearing a black-lace-over-taffeta dress, a rope of artificial pearls and a corsage of roses pinned demurely over her ample midriff she stepped quietly in front of Bob Scobey's Dixieland combo in Oakland's Showboat Cafe. When she let fly with Ain't Gonna Give You None of My Jelly Roll, she rocked the Showboat. She clapped her hands, snapped her fingers shuffled her feet, flapped her elbows. The singer was New Orleans' Lizzie Miles, 60 one of the last of a great generation of Negro blues shouters...
...play center and he does me a good job because he's a strong fella. But some fellas don't know about getting a bat with a thick handle like that Chicago fella [Nellie Fox] does. He knows when you get it on the fists your muscle ain't worth a damn. But do you think these fellas understand that...
...tell you something. They don't roar around the bases like they used to. The first time I face Jackie Robinson, they tell me he steals home six times. I don't need anybody to tell me. It's in the papers, ain't it? So I watch him and I say: 'He ain't gonna steal on me.' I got me a play all set for him. So he gets on third base the first time and off he goes. He's already sitting back in the dugout when my fellas...
...point, for instance, the hero leisurely lies his length in a lone copse and listens to the belling of his houn' dawg on the ridge. "Sweet music, ain't it, son?" he sighs. "Too purty for a body to stand, a'most," the boy agrees. Out of such moments, too, grows a sense of the attachment between father and son, and in the end, it is this relationship, and not the sappy love affairs, that is important...