Word: guitar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...guests. There were Edward Giannini, a clarinet-playing T-4 in the 417th Army Service Forces Band, Sergeant Joseph Bardner, and a third soldier whose name the Umeki family never learned. They knew him as "G Minor" because he always muttered "G minor, G minor" as he played his guitar...
...guitar, my geeetar. It swings out; it really goes. Just what we need for this party, before we all die of the gas in here...
...Harold Jenkins!" says Seat now, with reminiscent horror. "What can you do with a handle like that? God knows, my middle name, Sanford, is bad enough. But Harold Jenkins!" Then it turned out that hazel-eyed Harold twanged a neat country guitar and his voice could bounce from flat rock 'n' roll to a high-pitched sexy whisper. There was only one thing, Don decided-that name had to go. "I thought of Twitty. I tried Johnny Twitty, Freddie Twitty, but it just didn't work. Then we got to talking about towns in Arkansas...
...Ferry. Still, Harold was willing. He was 23 and had been looking for a good break in the music business ever since his daddy, who piloted a Mississippi River ferry out of Helena, Ark., taught him how to play the guitar. Some records he had out were bombs, so he was happy to let Agent Seat call the shots, even if it meant a handle like Twitty...
...rare privilege of Page One prominence by the New York Times, got results. One was that a New Yorker now in his mid-70s wrote to the advertiser (the Radioactivity Center of M.I.T.) and told his story. About 30 years ago he was working as a salesman, playing the guitar for relaxation. When he began to feel run down, a friend suggested a radium tonic to pep him up. His doctor saw nothing against it-for these were the days when many medical men were playing fast and loose with radium preparations, knowing and recking nothing of the dangers...