Volume 49, Number 14 · September 26, 2002
Wrapped Up in the Melody
By Brad Leithauser
Stardust Melody: The Life and Music of Hoagy Carmichael
by Richard M. Sudhalter
Oxford University Press, 432 pp., $35.00
It seems that out in California, one memorable day in 1946, a transplanted Indiana boy and devoted golfer, Hoagy Carmichael, hit a hole in one at the Bel Air Golf Club. According to one version of the story, he turned to his companions and said, 'Wait, let me hit another. I think I've got it.'
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