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...blues began feeling good to Johnny at the age of eleven, when he first heard the records of Robert Johnson, Howlin' Wolf and Lightnin' Hopkins on the radio down home in Beaumont, Texas. He began playing along on a hand-me-down guitar from his grandfather. Three years later, Johnny, 14, and Brother Edgar, 11, had their own band, Johnny and the Jammers. They made $8 a night for gigs across the border in Louisiana, where clubs were more lenient about age requirements. Edgar recalls that though Johnny only took enough lessons to pick up a few chords...
...Rear Admiral John V. Smith, son of the late Marine General Holland M. ("Howlin' Mad") Smith, protested both the Pueblo incident and an attempted attack on South Korea's President Chung Hee Park by a North Korean suicide squad earlier in the week. His Communist counterpart, Major General Pak Chung Kuk-known to American officers as "Frog Face"-claimed that the U.S. ship had been caught spying in North Korean waters and that the suicide squad was actually made up of "patriotic" South Koreans. To that, Smith angrily retorted: "I want to tell you, Pak, that the evidence...
Died. General Holland M. ("Howlin' Mad") Smith, 84, U.S. Marine, who became known as "the father of modern amphibious warfare" when he commanded the Fleet Marine Force in the Pacific during World War II; of a heart attack; in San Diego, Calif. A stocky, sulphurous, onetime Alabama lawyer, Smith personally led the bloody Marine assaults on Tarawa, Saipan and Iwo Jima, and dismissed criticism of heavy casualty rates (3,200 casualties at Tarawa alone) with "Gentlemen, it was our will...
...Howlin' Wolf, 56, is the chief exponent of "dirty downhome" country blues. "The Wolf" rarely stirs his hulking, 6-ft. 3-in., 250-lb. frame from a rickety wooden chair in front of his band; but standing or sitting, he movingly shouts the dilemma of the country man who is restless in the urban maze...
...Chicago, two new blues clubs on the predominantly white North Side feature not only the likes of Howlin' Wolf and Otis Rush but also a white lawyer's son named Paul Butterfield, who soaked up the Negro style during a five-year apprenticeship in South Side bands. Some blues buffs .are beginning to worry that the art, increasingly cut off from its country roots and diluted by white encroachments, will grow moribund. But the jumping Chicago scene today assures the vitality of the blues for a long time to come. A new vanguard of city-bred youths...