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CAT WHISKERS AND TALKING FURNITURE : A MEMOIR OF RADIO AND TELEVISION BROADCASTING PDF, EPUB, EBOOK John Rayburn | 246 pages | 15 Apr 2008 | McFarland & Co Inc | 9780786436972 | English | Jefferson, NC, United States Heartland | Book by Sarah Smarsh | Official Publisher Page | Simon & Schuster Add stories of wordplay by Jane Ace and Gracie Allen New Direction Do Triple-A baseball and college hockey play-by-play, guest with Webley Edwards on "Hawaii Calls" and cover devastating "year" flood Unexpected Turnaround Assume anchor position on top TV news program, become part of market's first full-time color news, explore the how and why of ratings, cover assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr Love of Reading Record dozens and dozens of books for National Library Service via the Library of Congress for the blind and physically handicapped Winding Down Begin big band program on radio and later on the Internet, being heard around the world, host station promotional river steamboat cruise and also cruise into Canadian Maritime Provinces, narration on several DVDs and tell of classic microphones of yesteryear, begin sports podcast for newspaper group Biography portal Television portal Journalism portal Retrieved January 3, Dolphin, Laurie; Brown, Christian eds Andrews McMeel Publishing ISBN Retrieved January 1, Sterling Publishing Company Retrieved January 7, The Washington Post Retrieved January 4, The Encyclopedia of Television, Cable, and Video Springer US OCLC Retrieved January 13, Wayne State University Retrieved September 15, Orlando Sentinel Retrieved July 2, Retrieved August 10, Encyclopedia of Television Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers ISBN X Retrieved December 4, Donning Co Publishers, The Orlando Sentinel Infomercial Watch Los Angeles Times The Lincoln Academy of Illinois Retrieved March 7, Deseret News March 1, Ad Astra National Space Society Dictionary of Minor Planet Names Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg The Lima News Drawn from the volumes of Princeton's authoritative Kierkegaard's Writings series by editors Howard and Edna Hong, the selections represent every major aspect of Kierkegaard's extraordinary career They reveal the powerful mix of philosophy, psychology, theology, and literary criticism that made Kierkegaard one of the most compelling writers of the nineteenth century and a shaping force in the twentieth With an introduction to Kierkegaard's writings as a whole and explanatory notes for each select The text contains new work on the stabilization of solid-liquid dispersions It focuses on topics as varied as electrostatics, hydrodynamics and rheology Christmas in the Charts By: Corp A jolly, joyous celebration of America's favorite holiday music, Christmas in the Charts is the complete history of every charted Christmas single and album of the past 85 years Also features special sections listing A-Z singles titles, A-Z album tracks, and a special page photo section with photos of the rarest and most c Edited by George Dimitriadis Printed only in Australia Cover and binding fine Pages unmarked except for the front flypaper which has a name and date in ink On the front pastedown are taped in TBR errata as at 31 January No jacket Sewn binding Very light pencil underlining and marginalia Featuring more than of the artist's photographs made over the past 15 years, the book includes new critical essays by exhibition curator Siri Engberg, curator and art historian Britt Salvesen and critic Barry Schwabsky, which offer context on the artist's working process, the photo-historical tradition behind his practice Pages unmarked and binding tight Covers have been wiped with alcohol which has washed out some of the blue especially on the back Rice now turns his signature detailed attention to large clarinets - the clarinet d'amour, the basset horn, the alto clarinet, bass and contra bass clarinets Each chapter is devoted to a specific instrument, and offers a fascinating insider's look at its defining characteristics, a comprehensive history of its evolution, meticulously-researched information on its makers and aspects of construction, and a thorough discussion of its music Table of contents for Cat whiskers and talking furniture The party sprang into full gear When Betty sobered up, she was upset about the news Did Jeannie want to get an abortion? It was even legal now She did not I thus was the proverbial teen pregnancy, my very existence the mark of poverty The Wichita area reached a hundred degrees for forty-two out of fifty-five days The heat wave killed seventeen hundred people across the Great Plains—one of the worst natural disasters in U But farmers might be the ones most likely to remember it For Jeannie, the summer was one hell of a time to be pregnant Mom stayed with me while Dad went back to work farming and building Mom and I were alone then, with a rotary phone, a cat, and a black-and-white television On the TV, local news anchors surely talked about the weather, which my family followed closely, and the upcoming presidential election, about which my family was less concerned Mom had recently turned eighteen, though, and intended to wield her new right For now, she wielded the cigarettes she had smoked right through her pregnancy, a laundry hamper full of cloth diapers, and a bottle of baby formula It would have been cheaper to breast-feed, but that would have been the lowest shame of poverty She scraped together change for formula I see so many things differently now But we did as we had learned Grandma Betty was driving back and forth to work in Wichita every day but helped with baby care when she could, like the day I choked on formula and she shook me by the ankles while Mom napped But Ronald Reagan won, of course, and got to work cutting taxes But keeping government out of the private sector could lead to a different sort of oppression, it would turn out Federal policies that had created a middle class in the twentieth century were giving way to corporate rule in which billionaires with political influence could be kings behind the scenes We were so unaware of our own station that, in the rare instance that the concept of class arose, we thought we were middle class You got what you worked for, we believed There was some truth to that But it was not the whole truth He went back to doing carpentry with his dad, uncles, and two older brothers, known in the area as Smarsh Brothers Construction When I was still an infant, Mom, Dad, and I left the little red house for a trailer that Betty and Arnie had parked next to their farmhouse Arnie hooked the trailer behind his tractor and pulled it to our land, a flat stretch of grass and dirt between the tall dam of a state reservoir and the flat wheat fields Dad had worked his whole life I had my first birthday party in the trailer Dad kept working and saving money, and I became a white-haired toddler Mom cooked supper in the tiny kitchen that had black-and-white wallpaper printed with turn-of-the-century advertisements for corsets and shaving cream More often than not, Mom had a job outside our home, too It almost always involved selling something She decided to get a state real estate license to sell houses in Wichita To be closer to work for both her and Dad, I guess—there being more structures to construct and sell in cities, of course—we moved east to Wichita, first to an apartment for less than a year, then to a rented house in a modest but quiet, treed neighborhood On weekends, Dad worked on our house in the country Things were looking up We got a cocker spaniel I had Flintstones vitamins and a pink canopy bed On Friday nights, Mom and Dad told me goodbye at the door and walked into the night dressed up—Mom with big, curled hair and bright blush on her cheeks, Dad wearing his snakeskin boots and smelling like Irish Spring soap and aftershave They went out to dance halls, where Dad drank Canadian whiskey and Mom drank diet pop During the days, while the two of them went to work, I briefly attended a preschool I was three years old and had already lived in four places, enough to know that a canopy bed and vitamins was high on the hog When Dad had paid off the bit of land he bought for our house, he used it as collateral for a bank loan to buy building materials It was early , and the construction industry could feel a recession coming on But Dad told him he had faith in the United States He believed that things would get better He signed for the loan, and we headed back to the country So we moved into their farmhouse My parents and I shared a bed upstairs that autumn Twelve miles down the road, before the air got too cold for cement-pouring, Dad laid the foundation for our new house As the earth around us hardened into winter, Dad did the electric wiring himself He hired a man from Mount Hope, a nearby small town, to the plumbing and the air conditioner The bricklayer would have to wait The cold had come fast and hard, and mortar would freeze before he could smear it Arnie lent his posthole digger for Dad to put up a new pole barn They dug the holes, loaded huge poles into the back of a wheat truck, and dropped each one into a hole, tamping dirt and pouring concrete from pole to pole They nailed two-by-fours horizontally between the poles and hoisted the trusses with a tractor scoop Male friends, their legs tightly wrapped around the tops of the poles, grabbed for the swinging trusses When the frame was done, they slid sheets of tin up, up, and over The pole barn seemed to me a great, mysterious place, where men were dirty and spoke a language of measurements—bushels of wheat, kernels per head, miles per gallon, acres of milo, points on a buck, yards to the eight-point buck I loved when they brought me along on chores or to cattle auctions If so, he had changed by the time I came along, as often happens on the way from parenting to grandparenting He would zoom me around on his three-wheeler to help feed the cows, keep me on his lap while he drove the tractor, tell me what tool to hand him in the work shed He thought I was hilarious Betty was Sis Because of Grandpa Arnie, I was Lou I knew him as a tender person, though He showed me how to pull a xylophone by a string and, years later, a hayrack by a truck with a manual transmission He cried when he accidentally tipped over the three-wheeler we were riding and I broke my arm In the evenings, Arnie returned from the shed with oil handprints on his jeans Betty returned from her job at the Wichita courthouse wearing Kmart business suits Dad returned from construction sites with sawdust in his beard All four bedrooms at the farm were upstairs They had wood floors and the original, single-pane windows that smelled like dust and had ice on the inside of them Dad and I would sit in bed eating cereal out of the box until the crumbs in the sheets made Mom mad We all snuggled against the cold In the spring of , Dad and his friends finished our house They put up sheetrock, laid shingles, poured cement in front of the attached garage A hired man dug a pond with a dozer Dad built a wooden dock before the big hole was filled with water A family friend who raised catfish a couple miles down the road stocked the pond She had a knack for making it appear that we had more money than we did There was about her an audacious dignity She said people art too high on walls She was bothered, too, by dirtiness—a necessary awareness, as there would be no visit by a cleaning lady Her attention to cleanliness might have been defensive, as well, to avoid giving credence to ideas that people like us might be dirty This inherited concern ran deep in us as females One of them, it seemed clear, was that I existed I was determined that you would never know that feeling It reached for you from far back in time, well before I existed, before my parents or grandparents existed We were centuries-old peasant stock I knew that side of my family as single mothers who moved like the wind and called themselves gypsies We ended up raising wheat and cattle, but our name, Smarsh, was for a much humbler food: mushrooms In our ancestral homeland, I once read, poor people said mushrooms were holy fingers poking through the earth to nourish them That sort of alchemy, assigning a meaning—turning what some might view as the lowly act of foraging into a direct communion with God, for instance—is often the only sort of power a poor person has One thing Mom and I had in common was that we understood and respected the power of words and names Her own mom said she had wanted to call her Jennifer, but Ray insisted they name the baby after Betty So my mom was named Betty Jean and spent a lifetime explaining why she went by Jeannie But it was my last name and its origins that decided the stuff of my life Like poor immigrants not so far back in our bloodline, we were raised to not expect much and to ask for even less It was a good thing, too I was raised to not be idle Our hard work was how we had a roof and enough to eat The poverty I felt most, then, was a scarcity of the heart, a near-constant state of longing for the mother right in front of me yet out of reach She withheld the immense love she had inside her like children of the Great Depression hoarded coins Being her child, I had no choice but to be emotionally impoverished with her I offered to rub her back every day so that I could touch her skin One develops a cunning to survive, whatever the shortage Similarly, I haunted hallways around the corner from where my mom sat reading Stephen King novels or watching soap operas as I tried to get up the courage to ask her if she loved me Nothing was more painful to me than true things being denied When I asked, her answer had the right words but the same cruel tone as her silence I wanted her affection, but more than anything, I wanted her to be happy You could say that is still a selfish impulse, because in order for a child to survive, her parents must survive, too Mom and Dad both were good at coming up with ways to make a fast dollar Dad knew that Wichita people would have to go somewhere else to have some real fun on the Fourth of July We lived past the county line, in Kingman County, where no elected official would dream of banning any class of fireworks The people of our county were farmers who drove enormous combines with giant, sharp blades that cut the wheat; carpenters who built their own giant sheds by swinging hammers while perched high on wooden rafters; and women who held down calves to inject vaccinations before they drove four-wheel-drive pickups to office jobs on the brick streets of small towns They could handle their firecrackers In June, Mom drove to a wholesale warehouse on a blacktop road through the prairie She wrote a check for hundreds of heavy boxes of various fireworks manufactured in China Dad and Grandpa Arnie hammered together a vending stand with lumber out of a scrap pile Dad kept in our shed The fireworks stand was a narrow rectangle with a roof, a counter for customers to approach, and a visible rack of shelves on the back wall Mom and Grandma Betty lined the shelves with merchandise, taking breaks to smoke Marlboros and stare at the horizon with weary looks I was almost four years old and held red-white-and-blue bunting to the counter as they stapled it in place, the thick, smelly plastic blowing in the wind and sticking to our sweaty, dusty legs Dad hauled his power generator from our shed to the fireworks stand It would run electricity to lightbulbs strung overhead, and to the blinking arrow sign he had rented and situated in the prairie grass next to the blacktop road The morning we opened for business, the people of Wichita appeared from the east, pulling speedboats behind pickups and carrying wallets full of cash They bought heaps of fireworks and headed off through the lake entrance for a long weekend Grandma Betty, her short blond hair darkened by sweat at the neck, counted the growing pile of bills in our cash box Dad and Grandpa Arnie spent the days in the fields, cutting wheat with combines or, after harvest, plowing the stubble under In the evening, they arrived to help at the fireworks stand Sunburned, eyes tired, whiskers full of dust and bits of straw, they moved heavy boxes and drank beer and laughed She had a paper Uncle Sam top hat over her short, sandy hair Neighbor farmers waved when they passed Everyone was covered in a thin film of dust When the stand closed around midnight, Dad spent the night sitting in his parked pickup, a loaded shotgun on the seat beside him, in case someone had a mind to rob us There was security in guns for good reason where we lived When it was all over, the morning after the Fourth, Mom and Dad counted and rubber-banded the bills Once they paid off the wholesale supplier, the county permit, and the family help, they had a fortune of a few thousand dollars We would be able to map our lives against the destruction of the working class: the demise of the family farm, the dismantling of public health care, the defunding of public schools, wages so stagnant that full-time workers could no longer pay the bills Historic wealth inequality was old news to us by the time it hit newspapers in the new millennium You live in different Americas and thus have different understandings Things were getting more expensive compared to how much money was coming in Dad saved coins in a giant glass bottle that had previously contained Canadian blended whiskey One night he reckoned it was time to count them He poured them onto a foldout card table in the living room near the brick fireplace I watched the pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters trickle down into a pile Touching the coins with great care, Dad separated them into stacks He was not a materialistic man I never knew him to buy anything for himself but work tools But he lived in a materialistic world, a system of goods and services that required monetary compensation He added figures on a notepad and a calculator He left the family room for a while and returned to count the coins a second time I walked past I stood there looking at him and the stacks of coins on the wobbly foldout table feeling like I could cry I hated being misunderstood, and I hated when my parents were unhappy This moment was all of that at once, and the air smelled like dirty metal I realized the weight of those coins, then The big, silver ones were worth the most, but the smaller ones mattered just as much when you needed every penny Grandma Betty scolded me once for throwing a few dirty, sticky pennies in the trash Once, a pay period shook out so that the company cut a check to her grandma for exactly one cent But a penny is a penny Every bit counts It was just a game, really, the whole money system Grandpa Arnie watched wheat prices go up and down in the local newspaper or on the price board that outside the grain co-op At the courthouse in Wichita, Grandma Betty made less money than men who did the same job with less skill We could walk into a store and with one glance at a tag discern a showroom full of ridiculous markups Mom would pick up a dish off a shelf, turn it over to read the number on the bottom Betty would raise her eyebrows, too Downs was inducted as a Lincoln Laureate in the Lincoln Academy of Illinois and was awarded the Order of Lincoln the state's highest honor by the governor of Illinois in Downs wrote a column for Science Digest during the s He was a science consultant for Westinghouse Laboratories and the Ford Foundation and an elected member of the National Academy of Science He served as chair of the Board of Governors of the National Space Society until and was a longtime president and chairman of the society's predecessor, the National Space Institute Downs publicly expressed support for libertarian viewpoints He opposed the U Downs married Ruth Shaheen on February 17, They had two children, Deirdre and H Ruth died on March 28, , at age On July 1, at the age of 99, Downs died from heart failure at his home in Scottsdale, Arizona From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia American broadcaster Akron, Ohio , U Scottsdale, Arizona , U Television broadcaster television host television producer author game show presenter music composer radio announcer radio programmer Ruth Shaheen Biography portal Television portal Journalism portal Retrieved January 3, Dolphin, Laurie; Brown, Christian eds Andrews McMeel Publishing ISBN Retrieved January 1, Sterling Publishing Company Retrieved January 7, The Washington Post Retrieved January 4, The Encyclopedia of Television, Cable, and Video Springer US OCLC Retrieved January 13, Wayne State University Retrieved September 15, Orlando Sentinel Retrieved July 2, Retrieved August 10, Encyclopedia of Television Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers Drawn from the volumes of Princeton's authoritative Kierkegaard's Writings series by editors Howard and Edna Hong, the selections represent every major aspect of Kierkegaard's extraordinary career They reveal the powerful mix of philosophy, psychology, theology, and literary criticism that made Kierkegaard one of the most compelling writers of the nineteenth century and a shaping force in the twentieth With an introduction to Kierkegaard's writings as a whole and explanatory notes for each select The text contains new work on the stabilization of solid-liquid dispersions It focuses on topics as varied as electrostatics, hydrodynamics and rheology Christmas in the Charts By: Corp A jolly, joyous celebration of America's favorite holiday music, Christmas in the Charts is the complete history of every charted Christmas single and album of the past 85 years Also features special sections listing A-Z singles titles, A-Z album tracks, and a special page photo section with photos of the rarest and most c Edited by George Dimitriadis Printed only in Australia Cover and binding fine Pages unmarked except for the front flypaper which has a name and date in ink On the front pastedown are taped in TBR errata as at 31 January No jacket Sewn binding Very light pencil underlining and marginalia Featuring more than of the artist's photographs made over the past 15 years, the book includes new critical essays by exhibition curator Siri Engberg, curator and art historian Britt Salvesen and critic Barry Schwabsky, which offer context on the artist's working process, the photo-historical tradition behind his practice Pages unmarked and binding tight Covers have been wiped with alcohol which has washed out some of the blue especially on the back Rice now turns his signature detailed attention to large clarinets - the clarinet d'amour, the basset horn, the alto clarinet, bass and contra bass clarinets Each chapter is devoted to a specific instrument, and offers a fascinating insider's look at its defining characteristics, a comprehensive history of its evolution, meticulously-researched information on its makers and aspects of construction, and a thorough discussion of its music Hugh Downs - Wikipedia Condition: Used - Very Good By: Scelsi, Giacinto By: Rayburn, John Publisher: McFarland: February Publisher: South End Press: October Condition: Used - Good Publisher: Princeton University Press: May By: Soloveitchik, Joseph B By: Waterford, Van 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