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...quarterback who led the Baltimore Colts to three NFL championships in the 1950s and 60s; in Timonium, Maryland. Unitas broke virtually every league passing record in the course of his 18-year career, and was named the greatest quarterback of all time in a poll commemorating the league's 50th anniversary...
...weapons, fittingly, are letters. Now the real story. Address Unknown first appeared in 1938 in the U.S. magazine Story and caused a sensation. A year later it was issued as a book, became a bestseller and was promptly banned in Germany. Reissued in 1995 to mark the 50th anniversary of the liberation of the concentration camps, it was subsequently translated into 15 languages. The French version sold 600,000 copies and was turned into a successful stage play. Last year the book finally appeared in Germany, and this year it was reissued in Britain. And what of Kressmann Taylor...
...says are hiding there. Shevardnadze spurned Russia's suggestion of a joint operation against the Chechens: "We will solve our problems on our own, and the Pankisi Gorge will become one of the country's exemplary and stable regions." MEANWHILE The Axman Cometh Guests at a British banker's 50th birthday party at a ch?teau in the south of France were surprised when "a very special guest" came on stage to play guitar - Tony Blair, with his shirt raffishly unbuttoned. Blair, who played in a band at Oxford called Ugly Rumours, belted out vintage rock 'n' roll for two hours...
...groups are integrated on a couple of Sun anthologies: the newly issued two-CD set "Sun Records: The 50th Anniversary Collection" (from BMG Heritage); and the older, fuller three-CD opus, "The Sun Record Collection" (on the ever-dependable Rhino label). The BMG set has some strange omissions: there's no Howlin' Wolf, whom Phillips called the greatest artist he ever recorded ("This is where the soul of man never dies"); no "Good Rockin' Tonight"; and, criminally, no "Great Balls of Fire," the Jerry Lee Lewis number that ... well, I'll save those superlatives for later...
...that time," says Milton Campbell in "Sun Records: An Oral History" by John Floyd, "the trend was, whoever had a hit record out, you would try to make up some lyrics as you go along and try to sound as close to that record as possible." On the "50th Anniversary Collection" you'll hear a 1953 instrumental, Jimmy & Walter's "Easy," whose melody closely copies the 1950 Ivory Joe Hunter ballad "I Almost Lost My Mind." Cash's "Folsom Prison Blues" was, as they say, "inspired by" Gordon Jenkins's "Crescent City Blues"; in the late '60s, the courts ruled...