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There was old (25 years) "Sergeant Dick," who got his name from calling everyone Dick. Talkative, Ozarkian, lanky, he harangued his platoon half hours at a time, often to heights of innocent eloquence, as in his farewell speech: "I ain't a sacred man, but we gonna win, 'cause we got folks ta home what's got a mighty big drag wid de Man 'at runs 'a whole shebang...
...that really carried the show was Avon Long's portrayal of "Sportin' Life" peddler of happy dust extraordinary. With a voice almost as bad as Rochester's Long by his incredibly smooth and graceful dance-like capers turns his weakness into a triumphant asset in his rendition of "It Ain't Necessarily...
Then some guy with a red and white tie and a strang dyspeptic look comes up and says no, that ain't two 'poons, one of 'em's a parody. Well, I'm a game joker so I says OK that's a paradoy, but to me, bud, it's just another 'Poon, to hold the stuff that was too good for the regular issue...
...could forget that handsome, super-relaxed Mississippian, Ben Hardy, who, incidentally, ain't slow when it comes to radio and radio code. "Twenty-five-a-minute Hardy," they call him around here...
...Cardinal scout signed Dean as a cockeye after watching him pitch rocks at squirrels. Dizzy patiently explains: "I throw so hard with my right arm that I squash up them squirrels somethin' turrible and they ain't fit eatin'. . . . When I'm out rustlin' up our grub ... I got to throw left-handed...