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...segregation, the two Jackson papers practice a boosterism that would make a Bab bitt blush. The Clarion-Ledger regularly runs a Page One color photo of a local maiden or matron gushing something like "It is patio time again." The Daily News runs a front-page cartoon of a donkey named Hinny who brays verse on behalf of some local cause: "It's the first night for football in the high schools of the state/ And ol' Hinny hopes each one'll win its game-won't that be great...
Each spring, two Harvard-Radcliffee students descend the Canyon walls to spend three months in Supai. Usually the students have never been farther west than Pittsburgh. The West, they think, must be no more complex than jostling down a narrow trail on a donkey piled with gear, or pulling catfish out of the Colorado River above the rapids...
...school when, performing at the White House in 1926, he pickpocketed a revolver from Calvin Coolidge's bodyguard, and became one of the giants in the field with his own line of spectacular tricks, featuring a donkey vanishing onstage and a rope climber disappearing in a cloud of smoke; of uremia; in Hollywood...
...kind of shy, squinty-eyed sincerity that bowls women over. His songbook is a treatise on good taste, superior arrangements and gimmick-free delivery, after the style of Frank Sinatra, who calls Jones "the best potential singer in the business." Jack, the son of Movie Tenor Allan Jones (Donkey Serenade) and Actress Irene Hervey, grew up "in the trade," spent eight years on the road before Pop decided that he was sincere and took him under his wing...
Tears over a Donkey. Next year, Lyndon shifted to another country school in nearby Albert, riding the four miles to and from school on a donkey. Johnson recalls that other kids poked so much fun at this that he often dismounted in tears. Then his mother told him about Jesus riding into Jerusalem on an ass. "I never cried again after that," says Johnson. "I felt like that little donkey was a white charger...