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...Everybody accepts the fact that Presidents grow rich in office," says a university professor. Indeed, the President's salary is one of Mexico's best-kept secrets. Miguel Aleman Valdes, for example, made multimillion-dollar investments in Acapulco real estate that turned the Pacific Coast city into a famous tourist attraction...
September also marks the beginning of the TV year for PBS and "Masterpiece Theater." In this two-part series, the season's opener, they share the pleasure of revealing one of France's best-kept secrets: Jean-Paul Sartre is a very funny man. Kean, which he wrote for the Paris stage 25 years ago, is the proof. Loosely based on the life of Britain's great 19th century actor, Edmund Kean, it can only be described as an existential farce, a humorous assault on both head and heart...
...nicely, he recorded Squeezing Out Sparks in eleven days, and penned a lively little remembrance of his old label, whose title, Mercury Poisoning, tells the story snugly and settles a few scores too: "The company is cripplin' me/ The worst trying to ruin the best . . . I've got Mercury poisoning/ The best-kept secret in the West...
...Festival's "Tribute to Bird, Coltrane and Mingus" concert this evening at Emmanuel Church. The program features pianistbandleader Jaki Byard, who must by this time be accustomed to such oversights. Byard's regular Wednesday night gig at Michael's with his Apollo Stompers band is one of Boston's best-kept secrets, and that's a shame--the Stompers are a young, growing group whose enthusiasm, tempered by Byard's experience and humor, makes their performances stimulating and very entertaining...
...time, Seger was Detroit's best-kept secret, a rocker who commanded a fanatic home-town following but kept missing a big national break. He had a national hit single in 1969 with his hard-driving Ramblin 'Gamblin 'Man, but trouble with his band kept him from touring to promote it properly. By the time he had finished his third album, Seger, with half a dozen local hits behind him, was back to living on $7,000 a year...