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...read with amusement and chagrin the menu which was to be served to all soldiers on Christmas day (TIME, Dec. 27). . . . "Subject to no change except for the most extreme fortunes of battle." To the best of my knowledge, no battle was being fought on or near Fort Benning, Ga...
...ragtimer named Charlie Cherry. Jimmie later sweated over fundamentals with an old-fashioned scales and exercises man. In 1912 easy money ended Jimmie's school days-he started playing in cafes. For the dancing pleasure of the "Geechies," Negroes from around Charleston, S.C. and Savannah, Ga., he worked up his noted Carolina Shout. Near Manhattan's 37th St., in the "Old Tenderloin," he studied under Ablaba, a honkytonk pianist with a "left hand like a walking beam." On that beam he modeled his own "walking bass." By 1920 he had what French jazz enthusiasts are apt to call...
Bargain Day. In Americus, Ga., Leon D. Slappey, unarmed, flushed a covey of quail, pointed an imaginary gun, cried, "Bang, bang" - whereupon one of the birds flew into a fence and was killed...
Providence. In Elberton, Ga., a windstorm hit a church that had been leaning badly for years, set it back straight again...
...Helen Dortch Longstreet, 85-year-old widow of Lieut. General James Longstreet, Robert E. Lee's right-hand man at Gettysburg, turned up as a student in "assembly, fabrication and riveting" at a training school in Marietta, Ga. A tireless individualist* Mrs. Longstreet lives alone at a trailer camp, goes to classes every day from 2 to 11 p.m., hopes to be in an assembly line job by next week. She explained simply: "I couldn't stay out of this...