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There’s “hungry” and then there’s “Diamond Jim Brady hungry”.
September 10, 2021You’re listening to Artie Wayne with Freddy Martin and His Orchestra and… You’re on the Sound Beat. While Howard Hughes’ aviation career is popularly associated with “The Spruce Goose”, the Hughes H-1 Racer set the landplane air-speed record in 1935, and it occupies a place in history that exists now, and may very well forever. Speaking of ...
September 2, 2021You can’t help but admire the patriotism of a guy who lies about his age to get into the Navy. Especially if that age is 14!
September 1, 2021A muleskinner’s job was not quite as…grim as it sounds. Still…kinda grim though.
September 1, 2021There are a couple different definitions for a blue moon, both of them kind of rare, and neither of them have to do with color of any sort.
August 31, 2021The man Winston Churchill called “Scotland’s greatest ambassador”.
August 30, 2021The moon has served as muse for countless numbers of poets, from the unnamed and unknown, to Shelley, Dickinson, and Kerouac. But only one of these had to worry about record label execs. You’re on the Sound Beat. You’re listening to Jack Kerouac reading his poem “The Moon Her Majesty”, on Dot Records’ Poetry for the Beat Generation, ...
August 24, 2021