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What is the most memorable concert you've ever attended?-Barbara Bernacchi, CHICAGOBack in 1976 I was, I think, in Chicago, and Bob Marley was touring then, and I didn't know who he was. I was working a little club, and a waitress told me, "You gotta see this guy." I went, and it probably changed my musical life ever since...
What was your best experience while a struggling singer and songwriter? -Barbara Bernacchi in ChicagoI think it was the first time that I heard somebody who had recorded one of my songs. It was an old country singer called Lefty Frizzell and the first song of mine that anybody else recorded was called "Railroad and Lady." I was living in Nashville and trying to make a living as a songwriter as well as a performer, which was really hard, because nobody wanted to hear what you had to say. It was very competitive and very controlled. Still to this...
Society, to be sure, is far more accepting of single women than it was even a few years ago. When Barbara Baldwin, the director of Planned Parenthood in Tennessee, divorced her husband in 1981, she needed her father's help before anyone would give the then 29-year-old single mother a car loan and a credit card. Beverley DeJulio, a divorced Chicago mother who hosts Handy Ma'am, a weekly home-improvement show on pbs, says she dreaded the hardware store for years, because salespeople kept asking, "Where's your husband?" And the Stone Age year when Anne Elizabeth...
...dean is the fourth dean Faust has had to appoint before even moving into Massachusetts Hall on Sunday. This spring, she named Michael D. Smith to lead the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Barbara J. Grosz to replace her for a year at the head of Radcliffe and Barbara J. McNeil to serve as the acting dean of the Harvard Medical School until a permanent dean is named. Faust must also find a new vice president for alumni affairs and development and plans to appoint an executive vice president...
...Several of the Canadian journalists filing stories from the Chicago courtroom have worked for Black or his wife, writer and socialite Barbara Amiel. Some are even friends. Take the case of Maclean's, the weekly newsmagazine. Its publisher and editor, Ken Whyte, who once ran the Hollinger flagship publications Saturday Night magazine and the National Post newspaper, testified for the defense. Whyte bolstered the defense's claim that Black's expensive parties, paid for in part by the company, were work related. Whyte's fidelity to his former employer was also stated outright. "I suppose I'm loyal...