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...Danny Bass, a Tennessee construction worker, was 20 years old in 1978 when he married Mary Ann Garton, then 37. Bass had been put up for adoption when he was three, and except for a brief encounter in his early teens, he never saw his mother again. Then, after three months of married life, Mary Ann Bass casually informed Bass that she was his mother. As Danny's lawyer, Doug Jackson, put it, "That really set him back a notch...
...Bass ran off and joined the Army for four years, but his mother persisted in her efforts to lure him back. Says Jackson: "He has letters from her in which she says she loves him like no other girl." Last week in Charlotte, - Tenn., the attorney general's office brought charges of felonious criminal incest against Mrs. Bass, who pleaded innocent. If convicted, she could face up to 21 years in jail. Danny now says that all he wants is a new life and a new wife. One closer...
...Midway's regular service, which is aimed at business travelers. The acquisition, expected to cost Midway about $7 million, will allow the carrier to expand into Florida and take over the Caribbean routes that Air Florida served. Provided the plan receives court and regulatory approval, Midway Chairman Arthur Bass predicts that the buy-out will enable his company to double its revenues...
Credit should also go to guitarist David Mcnair for his clear, ringing guitar playing (reminiscent of Peter Buck's guitar work for REM) and Stipe's prominent, graceful bass lines. Together, with Matthew Sweet's astute drumming, Stipe and Mcnair create a spare but rollicking sound that perfectly compliments the deceivingly playful tone of this...
...TIME, April 16), spins its story from the torn entrails of Central Europe. Yet what emerges is comedy-black, grimacing and explosively funny, as peculiarly Middle European as the despairing wit of Prague's own Franz Kafka. Skvorecky has mixed history with high unseriousness before-notably in The Bass Saxophone, about a Czech youth playing in a German dance band during the war-but his latest work is unquestionably his masterpiece of that modern specialty, the heartbreaking belly laugh...