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Well, no. A night's sleep, a warm bright morning and a big grits breakfast begin to focus facts. The breakfast (paper plate, plastic knife and fork) is at the Kountry Korner Restaurant. I've been advised that a trace of old Plains may be found here. And here indeed is more than a trace: eight middle-aged farmers at one long table talking land, bean planting, the future of Taiwan ("You think the Taiwans got a word to say about it? Think 1 billion can't take 17 million any day they want...
Every evening Majuro's Americans gather at the yacht club. It is a reunion of sorts, since many breakfasted together at the Kozy Korner diner. The yacht club is a converted garage decorated with reef charts and Japanese fishing floats. From either side of the club one can hit the Pacific with an ice cube...
...sure sign of jazz's new vitality is the recent proliferation of clubs. In San Francisco, the Keystone Korner, El Matador and the Great American Music Hall are jumping nightly with finger snappers. Boston has a floating musical bistro called Jazzboat plying the harbor on two sold-out weekly cruises. Around New Orleans' Bourbon Street the crowds wander in and out of clubs that open onto the sidewalk. They can hear anything from driving Dixieland to the attenuated sounds of progressive jazz. In New York there are more clubs than at any time since...
They attended three Chamber of Commerce dinners and a Kiwanis lunch, spent a night at the Kozy Korner Motel in Humboldt, played the jukebox, window-shopped, chewed gum, tried "Tummy Buster" and "Idiot's Delight" sundaes at the Milky Way Dairy in Oskaloosa, "the middle of the Middle West...
...shadowy relationships and shifting allegiances, no one worried too much about his past. It was known that he was born in Poland, that his father had been an officer of the old Austrian Empire's army and a comrade-in-arms to Austria's President Theodor Korner. A cultivated man, Dr. Sokolowski speaks excellent Russian, German, Polish, French and English, a valuable asset in a city quartered between four languages. For his services to Austria, he got Austrian citizenship in 1945, became chief interpreter for the Vienna city council...