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...materialize, in the Village, "modern Gomorrah," he called it, in 1960. The pop-cult 50s was Dylan's home-or, at last, his sleepover when he was a kid. In Chronicles he describes his feeling of kinship with smooth-singing Bobby Vee and Ricky Nelson, with the composer Harold Arlen and the wrestler Gorgeous George. He also played occasionally in rock band and briefly backed Vee in 1959, when the Buddy Holly soundalike singer was booked to fill the dates Holly couldn't make because he'd died in a plane crash in a frosty Iowa cornfield...
...wake of reports that the NSA is monitoring phone records, Senator Arlen Specter, the Judiciary Committee chairman, said he would subpoena phone companies to appear before his committee. The phone companies said they would try to be there sometime between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m." TINA...
...need to be lectured by you. You are no more a protector of the Constitution than am I." ARLEN SPECTER, Senate Judiciary Committee chairman, to Russell Feingold after the Wisconsin Senator vocally opposed the committee's approval of a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage...
...would have liked about the mysterious program, which has been under way since 2001--with information provided by the nation's three largest phone companies--and has produced what is reported to be the largest such database ever. But while lawmakers vowed closer oversight--with Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Arlen Specter announcing that he would summon the heads of the three phone companies to testify, under subpoena if necessary--few politicians went so far as to say that Bush should not have done...
...Whiting should have told a story dating back to 1940, when Arlen and Mercer came to her home (Margaret's father was another Mercer collaborator, Richard Whiting; they wrote "Hooray for Hollywood") eager to play a song they had just composed for a Warner Bros. melodrama. From the first bars of "Blues in the Night" ("My momma done tol' me?") everybody knew the song was gold. Inexplicably, it was left off the song list...