Word: mcgee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many new ways," said a YPF engineer last week. "They have instilled in the whole area an attitude that work can be fun, too." Now rating top priority in Frondizi's budget, YPF will drill 4,100 wells on its own by 1965, has let contracts to Kerr-McGee, Southeastern Drilling and the Italian ENI for another...
Guard: Mike McGee, 21, Duke; 6 ft. 1 in., 220 lbs. Major: education. "Can outrun any back on the team, and could make All-America at fullback or halfback. May be the best lineman in the South. Might make a linebacker...
Terry and McGee made their first Boston appearance in the opening offering of the Folklore Concert Series at Jordan Hall and gave a sampling of their repertory at the Vanity. Alan Lomax, America's greatest living folklorist, gave one of his rare public performances and it's too bad he didn't stay around longer. He brought with him a pleasant English girl named Shirley Collins, who sang some ballads in a thinnish voice...
...spite of their new-found prosperity, the lame McGee and blind Sonny Terry sing and shout their blues with all the pathos of their poverty-stricken days in Carolina and Tenessee. They began with Midnight Special and Can't Stop Me Now Because I'm Climbing On Top of the Hill, during which Terry, a man with a rhythmic soul, seemed to be singing and playing his harmonica at the same time. Sticking to the tried and true, they followed with John Henry, Take This Hammer and Poor Howard's Dead and Gone, an old Leadbelly song which Terry recorded...
Lomax returned to lead the audience in Almost Done, a song he collected years ago from penitentiaries, when the wardens permitted him to visit with the prisoners and swap songs and stories. Terry and McGee rocked through I Don't Want No Cornbread and Molasses, straight out of a southern jail, and marched out with When the Saints Go Marching...