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Friends of the Governor said he plans to make his entry into Washington, after an official canvass on July 14, in typical O'Daniel style, escorted by his dome-topped sound truck (a replica of Texas' Capitol), his famed string band, and Texas Rose to sing the Governor's song, Beautiful Texas. Along the way, he expects to stop in Kansas, where he grew up, at Malta, Ohio, where he was born...
After painstaking rehearsals, Mr. Bechet went to the Victor studios with his tenor and soprano saxophones, string bass, drums, clarinet. The piano was already there. He recorded each instrument's part separately, listening to and recording the preceding part as he played the next one (see cut, p. 40), The six parts were progressively dubbed together. "Man!" cried Mr. Bechet, when the job was done. "That ends three months of torture...
...loped around the bases amid a deafening roar, the 26-year-old Yankee Clipper left in his wake the broken fragments of one of baseball's immortal records. Di Maggio had just hit safely in his 45th successive game, bettering the fabulous string of 44 spun by wondrous Wee Willie Keeler (who "hit 'em where they ain't") 44 years...
...told the Lord that he was going to tell the truth; suddenly he was no longer scared or worried, and lay back on his bunk and slept. About dark the boys woke him. He looked through the bars at the scene swimming in the hot Southern twilight, a string of 100 cars drawn up before the jail, 700 white men circulating under the trees. Strong in his faith, he lay down again and slept. It was 10:15 when the mob's leaders, with keys taken from the sheriff, unlocked the cell door. Spivey knew they had come...
...friendly Fifth, after the 27th and 30th had driven the Fifth across the Duck River. As in the first exercise, George Patton, wearing his newfangled globular tank helmet,* was in the thick of action, ran his show with snap and speed. (Said he: "You can't move a string of spaghetti by pushing it from the hind...