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...Johnny Mercer, Joel Whitburn's Pop Memories 1890-1954 informs us, was "the lyricist for more popular songs than any other songwriter in history." In the mid-'40s, Mercer, a founder of Capitol Records, also had three No. 1 hits as a vocalist: "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive," "Candy" and "On the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe" - a record, I believe, for a classic pop songwriter. The Savannah native with the gap-toothed smile was the author or co-author of more than 1,000 songs, which scaled the charts for 30 years, in the prime of the Great...
...Google guys can be tough sells. Page, a computer geek from Michigan who as a boy idolized inventor Nikola Tesla (you know, the guy who developed AC power), has a Muppet's voice and a rocket scientist's brain. Brin, born in Russia and raised outside Washington, is no less clever but has a mischievous twinkle in his eye. When he drops little asides--"Let's make the little windows actually explode when you close them," he tells a group presenting new desktop software--no one seems certain whether to laugh or start writing the computer code. Both men often...
...piers, has doors in the front and back, windows in all rooms and wood-sheathed walls with no insulation. In a hot, humid clime like Houston's, that "allows air to continually circulate under the house and through the house," says Zamore. "This was the old way of getting AC, before electricity...
...Sixteen Harvard and Radcliffe entries raced this weekend, with the Harvard heavyweights taking home the most hardware in their first home regatta of the year.HARVARDFor the second consecutive year, the Harvard varsity four bested all collegiate competition, coming in third place overall behind Thunderbird Rowing Club and Penn AC. The Crimson’s Championship Four entry was the first crew to start and completed the course in 16:55.06, with the sixth-place Wisconsin boat (17:14.62) the closest collegiate crew to Harvard on the afternoon. “It went well,” said senior varsity stroke...
...opponent, Weah, is a former star of the AC Milan soccer team and the 1995 World Footballer of the Year...