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...body-slammed and headlocked his opponents. But the struggle over the Reform Party was too much for the former Navy SEAL and onetime professional wrestler. JESSE VENTURA was done with the party's atomization into factions and fiefs, the carping from Dallas, its creeping Buchananism. When JOHN ANDERSON, who ran for President as an independent in 1980, visited Ventura in Minnesota a few months back, he could tell the Governor was getting fed up. "He was tired of the dramatis personae," recalls Anderson, who briefly flirted with the idea of seeking the Reform Party nod. Last week Ventura discussed...
...long time later, Marian Anderson would recall her early years in south Philadelphia. "I'd think, 'Can't I sing? Can't I be a singer because I'm colored?'" Nobody was more entitled to that musical success, proclaims the meticulously researched new biography Marian Anderson: A Singer's Journey (Scribner), by Brandeis professor of music Allan Keiler. By 10 years old, Anderson was already known locally as "the baby contralto." But it would take an uphill fight, time spent in Europe, even the intercession of Eleanor Roosevelt, for her to triumph over discrimination in the U.S. It was only...
Jonas kept Harvard in it for the early going robbing Saints center Erik Anderson at 8:09 of the first on dead-on shot between the circles, that caught Jonas off guard, but he still managed a kick save without even seeing the puck...
...socks and hoods, as the Samurai, Red Tornado, Black Panther, Golden Lion. Every class is like fright night at the Elks Lodge. "Guy comes in, says his name is Greg, but he wants to be called Power Lord because that's what they called him in school," says Bill Anderson, 43, one of the two former pro wrestlers who run the school. "The guy's maybe 5 ft. 7. I said, 'Where'd you go, a school for midgets...
Students get their feet wet in shows staged by Anderson and Hernandez, and three ex-students now have development contracts in the big time. But it's a long shot for all of them, says Jim Ross, host of the TV show Monday Night Raw and talent boss for the WWF, where trash talking is an essential skill. "The biggest enemy some of them have is the English language...