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...blues for drunk humans. Backed by an outfit which includes Harvard graduate Peter Bell on guitar, James Montgomery blows a wicked harp and sings Junior Wells tunes better than Junior himself. One of Montgomery's most endearing qualities is an apparent willingness to permit virtually anyone to jam with the group. Two weeks ago at Jack's, he was joined by Bonnie Raitt on guitar and vocals, an unidentified conga player, and innumerable walk-on harpists and pianists. No one seemed to mind the rough edges to the music produced by this informality; in truth, the drunker and looser...
...East bloc tourists in Western Europe, RFE's audience is impressive: 78% of all radio-listening Poles, 81% of the Hungarians, 77% of Rumanians, 78% of Bulgarians and 60% of the Czechoslovaks. At present, all the East bloc countries except Czechoslovakia and Bulgaria have given up trying to jam RFE since the broadcasts tend to get through anyhow...
...prime, almost everybody had something to say about the country's most controversial neWWs-boy. To Ed Sullivan he was a "cringing coward"; to the California American Legion he was "America's No. 1 Patriot." Ben Hecht said he wrote "like a man honking in a traffic jam." H.L. Mencken lauded him as "an assiduous inventor and popularizer of new words and phrases." Lord Mountbatten and J. Edgar Hoover wrote him fan letters. Ethel Barrymore wondered, "Why is he allowed to live...
STOP BUSING, WALLACE CAN. The first of the 3,261 cars in the caravan to complete the trek followed the designated route past the Washington Monument, the White House and the Capitol. Slowed by a slushy snowfall and wrong turns, the motorcade ended ineffectually in a traffic jam that stretched 25 miles back along Interstate...
...performance attempted to do one or the other, and frequently it struck wholly unresponsive chords as it submarined below the audience's general level of sophistication. The poet's power to awaken was more often used simply to recount; his power to unify was more often used to jam...