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...NEWCOMER Alhambra, Calif...
...first time John Hammond heard Bessie Smith sing was in October 1927 at the Alhambra Theater in Harlem. He was 16, and, at his parents' insistence he went to the 6 o'clock show and got home early. "Bessie didn't mess with the mike," Hammond recalls. "She was just up there belting. She had come up before the days of the microphone, and so she had developed a pair of pipes you couldn't believe. Billie Holiday and Mildred Bailey-the ones that came after her-all had small voices. You couldn't hear...
...Jack Rollings of Metropolitan Baptist Tabernacle has set a limit of 15 minutes on his eulogies. "I remember a time," he says, "when if you didn't speak for 30 minutes, it meant you didn't care for the deceased." Episcopal Canon Howard Johnson of Alhambra, Calif., insists that caskets should be closed-"not because we are afraid to look at a dead body, but to save the cost of cosmetology...
...neither writing nor editing but getting along with people. Incongruously, for a chief operative in a notoriously efficient political organization, Klein has always been a "dirty-desk" man who seems almost constitutionally unable to arrive for an appointment on time. As a political reporter for California's Alhambra Post-Advocate, he became friendly with Nixon in 1946, when he first ran for the House against Jerry Voorhis. Since then, Klein's journalistic career has been interrupted no fewer than five times by the leaves he has taken to work as a Nixon campaign aide. Between the various campaigns...
...quarterback who steered the U.C.L.A. Bruins to a Rose Bowl victory in 1966, himself to a Heisman Trophy as the nation's outstanding collegiate football player last year and a reported $200,000 three-year contract with the Washington Redskins; and Kathy Hanson, 21, his college sweetheart; in Alhambra, Calif...