My friend Page would recall some adventure of Bix Beiderbecke’s, which would then remind someone else of an interesting story about Django Reinhart, which would remind me that Django Reinhart had only two good fingers on his fretting hand.

Ting ,ding, ding, buzz . . . “Welcome! Thank you for calling Multi-Maga Services Amalgamated. This call may be recorded for security purposes. Para escuchar este mensaje en español, presione #dos . . . a pause, then . . .
Your call is very important to us.

A Greek word (ere-a-trey) meaning both excellence and virtue; two sides of the same coin as far as the Greeks of the Classical period were concerned.

Every Sunday morning the Story Lady would read the text of all the nationally sydicated comics over
the radio. I would lay the pages of the Des Moines Sunday Register out before me and do my best to follow along. I couldn’t actually
read yet, but I sure
wanted to.