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Genghis Khan solved the iron-ration problem by issuing each of his soldiers a straw so that his warriors could thus tap their horses' veins and drink the fortifying blood. The U.S. Army believes it may lick the iron-ration problem with Field Ration K-a three-meal package of concentrated food, which contains 3,726 calories and can be packed in a heat-and-cold-proof...
Perfectionist Astaire, world's No. 1 tap dancer, shows no signs of slowing down. Each of his routines has a new and different sparkle. One, performed while tipsy, is a deft parody of jitterbuggery. Another, a 4th of July number done to the accompaniment of torpedoes and firecrackers, is his favorite staccato buck & wing, with some fresh frills. A dazzler for any audience, it was a headache for studio technicians. Astaire could explode his own torpedoes, but the firecrackers had to pop in time with his fidgety feet. Technicians built an organ that would set off the crackers electrically...
...TAP ROOTS - James Street - Dial...
...Tap Roots is exciting as history and as a story. The little-known history it highlights is the rise and bloody fall of the Free State of Jones (novelized as Lebanon), a county in southeastern Mississippi which seceded from Mississippi soon after Mississippi seceded from the Union. Like many Southerners, most of Lebanon's inhabitants were mild but firm abolitionists. Lebanon's leaders despised Jefferson Davis, the big planters, the innumerable fire-eating lawyers, preachers, sword-rattlers and politicians who helped make secession and war inevitable...
...story of Tap Roots is startling in a different way. Morna Dabney was betrothed to Clay Maclvor, but when infantile paralysis withered her right leg, he made off with her sister Aven ("graceful as a waterfall"). Morna had to content herself, illicitly, with the "incredibly handsome" Keith Alexander, while the leg limbered up. Keith (in nonfiction the remarkable Alexander Keith McClung) was the bitter bastard son of a great man in Washington. Keith shot 17 men for asking who. Author Street keeps his guesses to himself...