this
Table of Contents
(wry tear)
(right
here)
a look at: Exactly
HOW Mrs. Nixon’s Legs Saved the White House Christmas
Concert
the Title Page for this ‘look’ at mj lorenzo’s fourth book
a Frontispiece for this ‘look’ which Dr. Lorenzo designed and offered (gratis!) (in 2013) (just prior to publication of the present work) because it quoted the Dr. and the U.S. President (Eisenhower) both in a way that reminded EVERYBODY that both had tried to stop humanity from annihilating itself
a photo of Betty Ann McCall playing the Cordovox
this Table of Contents (rye
tier) (right here)
1 - what The Legs Pundits insisted mj lorenzo’s fourth book was really about (if you really wanted to know what it was really about)
2 - the Legs pundits’ Four Famous Points derived therefrom (and therefor) therefore
3 - and exactly How and when and why The Young Dr. Lorenzo Finally (!) Quieted His Own Wracked Brain Currents enough to get this golden fairytale of a story recorded on genuine Sears cassette tapes for posterity (finally!)
Part I: Mrs. Nixon’s Legs
the whole huckstery heck of an original Part I Title Page for mj’s original book
4 - and exactly How Mister Frog Did (almost) Ask Miss Mousie to Marry Him on bended wounded frog’s knee one night at dinner in a Stroudsburg restaurant
5 - and Why Fickle-Flopper Drove Betty Ann’s Little Mark to Bill’s House so suddenly and unexpectedly one day right about the same time
6 - and exactly Why Bill Said That Poor Old Poley McClintock 'Had to GO Then' therefore
7 - and How Mister Frog Then Broke the Infuriating News to Old Uncle Rat that Frog would be marrying Miss Mousie very soon really
8 - and exactly Who really WAS 'The First to Know' that they were getting married anyway when you really thought about it for more than two lines of a song
9 - and exactly How Mrs. Nixon's bended and all too human legs finally won Bill Blackburn a famous psychological war victory at the Bob Hope Wilkes-Barre Flood Telethon a tale usually known as Mrs. Nixon’s Legs a favorite Bill Blackburn story among those who knew his stories well and a psychological thriller
10 - and exactly How Fred Waring said the unkind words 'Don’t thank ME!' right after the wedding ceremony in his own living room if you can believe it
11 - and exactly Why the preacher had to say firmly to the whole wedding party 'We'll all stand together' PERIOD
12 - and exactly Why and exactly to whom Bill Blackburn said of the preacher marrying him 'He works for God'
13 - and the whole blinkin’ daggone authentic but famous yet beautifulunctious perscrumptious ritual Blackburn-McCall wedding ceremony in Fred Waring’s celebrated celebrity living room recorded on genuine Stroudsburg Pennsylvania Sears cassette sound tape and machine also called The Wedding Tape
14 -
and About whose mustache exactly Bill said to
the young Dr. 'He doesn't dig mustaches'
15 - and Who really was 'The Star of the Wedding' anyway when you really thought about it for more than two seconds of a song or three
Part II: The White House
Christmas Concert
the whole dad-gum and really splendiferous Part II Title Page of mj lorenzo’s original best-seller fourth book
16 - the whole authentic and carefully researched historical setting of The Exasperating ‘White House Tape Scandal’ Fiasco if you really wanted to know or not
17 - and exactly Who WAS Bugged about Bugging and freaked out about at least one other lovely thing (or leg) or two at the Pat and Dick Nixon Annual White House Cabinet and Staff Party around that particular Christmastide of ‘72
18 - and The whole compleat and authentick never-government-classified White House (Christmas Concert) TAPE preserved and reveal’d perfectly intact nevertheless
19 - Ike! (and exactly what a deadd prezzident had to do with it all anyway when you really thought about it a little bit once in a while)
20 - Demonstration! and how the Big-Band blonde-bomb bride and orphan madonna typically 'demonstrated' her little magical musical baby in her lovely lap at Fred Waring concerts
21 - and Who said so impudently and irreverently 'The President of What?' – it couldn’t really have been his own Holy Immanence Fred Waring his own very politically savvy self
22 - and How the m-mamous f-funnywhooners were finally given ‘Our Own Private Banquet’ at the very mixed-up and wish-you-would-never-forget-me-Gordian-gNOT Nixon White House Christmas Party-and-Concert of 1972: finally!
Part III: Seriously
Important Afterthoughts
23 - and yet another kind of propundity’s ‘look at’ mj lorenzo’s fourth book: Exactly How Mrs. Nixon’s Legs Saved the White House Christmas Concert including exactly how to seriously study and maybe even ‘look at’ and meditate upon and celebrate and understand as well (almost) as any blankety-blank XY#!&#X! or whatever kind of PUNDIT Dr. Lorenzo’s ever-popular (and uncannily intuitively brilliant) and lucid (and ‘luminous’?) and even funny (some days) (depending on one’s mood) fourth book
and
the appendix – a glossary of a few of
the musical terms used in the present work
a
brief
chronology of events
related to the creation and publication of this study
a
catalogue
of images
found in this work
and
other
titles
of 'a look'
to be found in this multi-volume series
a look at the life and creative
artifacts of mj lorenzo
and
finally
the
Bibliography
of seriously helpful
books, documents, digital references, music media and
libraries
consulted in the preparation of this 'look at'
mj lorenzo’s fourth book:
Exactly
How
Mrs. Nixon's Legs
Saved
The White House Christmas Concert