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...none of that matters to John Lord and his hunting buddies who made the trip again this year from Augusta, Maine. They consider opening day a holiday as sacred as July 4th or Memorial...
Team one won the Division II title, dropping only four games in six matches. The Crimson swept Harvard II, Columbia II, Princeton II and NJIT II by 5-0 scores and defeated both NJIT I and Augusta II by 5-2 marks...
Brown's fall from the top of the charts to a four-man prison cell has been going on for several years. In 1985 the IRS slapped a lien on his 62-acre spread on rural Beech Island, about ten miles outside Augusta, and he was forced to auction it off. His eight-year marriage to Adrienne, his third wife, has been tempestuous. Last April she filed suit against him for assault, then dropped the charge. (Among other things, he allegedly ventilated her $35,000 black mink coat with bullets...
...office, waving a gun and complaining that strangers were using his bathroom. When the police arrived, Brown sped away in his pickup truck, touching off a high-speed chase through Georgia and South Carolina that ended only after the cops shot out his tires. The city of Augusta, which had honored him three years ago with a James Brown Appreciation Day, turned on him. "Enough was enough," says Mayor Charles DeVaney...
Before he started to slide, Brown racked up 15 No. 1 R.-and-B. hits; amassed a personal empire that included radio stations in Augusta, Knoxville and Baltimore; and inspired later generations of rock 'n' rollers, including Mick Jagger and Michael Jackson. So great was his influence with young blacks that he was summoned to Boston and Washington to cool off race riots during 1968. He eagerly ticks off the Presidents he has met and supported, including George Bush. "I've been the American Dream," Brown plaintively notes. "When you say Old Glory, I'm a part...