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Died. Mississippi John Hurt, 74, Negro blues singer, guitarist and composer who was discovered in 1928 by a recording company, then faded back into obscurity as a $28-a-month hired farm hand in Avalon, Miss., until he was rediscovered in 1963 by the new folkniks, who put him back on records and in concert halls, doted on his shy, sweet way of singing Avalon Blues or such wryly erotic songs as Candy Man and Salty Dog, also found his gnarled hands and walnut face an illustration of his Trouble, I've Had It All My Days...
...Swiss ancestors had established the small (pop. 500) town of Kresgeville 120 years before his birth. Sebastian's father was a hard-pressed farmer who had one farm seized by a sheriff for mortgage nonpayment; young S.S. helped support a later, smaller farm out of his $22-a-month salary as a schoolteacher...
...mulatto woman and an Egyptian of Greek descent. Despite his mixed blood, he managed to pass himself off as a white, fooled the Verwoerd regime into granting him South African citizenship. Shortly after he was hired as a parliamentary messenger in August, he complained that his $140-a-month salary was not enough for a white man to live on. Verwoerd, he charged, was "doing too much for the coloreds and not enough for the poor whites...
...mark, half a minute off his 1,500-meter time. Hodge is better in the field: he has put the shot 11 ft. 2¼ in. farther than Yang, hurled the discus 165 ft. 5 in. (v. Yang's 140 ft. 1 in.). Rooming together in a $110-a-month Santa Barbara apartment (Hodge does the cooking), the two also double as each other's coaches. "I help Russ with his running," says Toomey, "and he helps me with the weight events...
Tillinghast went from Columbia Law School to a $175-a-month job with the Manhattan law firm headed by Charles Evans Hughes Jr., son of the onetime Chief Justice. Except for 29 months as a deputy assistant Manhattan district attorney under Thomas E. Dewey, he spent the next 22 years practicing corporate law. It was through law that Tillinghast eventually became associated with TWA-and was brought into classic corporate conflict with TWA's eccentric genius, Howard Hughes...