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...Seattle: The Big Bad Attitude, Tom Chambers, landed in Phoenix during the off-season. Chambers liked to shoot and shoot and shoot and shoot some more (what's a pass--something you make at a woman?). With Chambers gone, Bernie Bickerstaff will be able to make use of his other talent...
...Episcopal nun now stationed in Boston had a very special Thanksgiving last week-and so did the people she had helped. In 1951 Sister Anne Marie Bickerstaff, a native of Richmond, Va., had gone to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, to teach at a missionary school. She became impressed by the musical ability of some of her students, and was distressed that the island had no music school, no concert hall and no national orchestra...
Generally, though, the first days settle into exciting weeks and rewarding months, and the most tentative of new citizens begins to sound like a charter member of the D.A.R. Ask David John Bickerstaff, 32, a British automotive engineer who moved to Detroit in 1973, owns a four-bedroom home with swimming pool and a vacation cottage in northern Michigan. "When I meet a cynical guy in the U.S.," says Bickerstaff, "I tell him: 'Why don't you go to England and live? You'll come back a happy American.' " -Michael Demarest
...Times letter was signed Isaac Bickerstaff, the pseudonym under which Jonathan Swift once hoaxed his public...
...Brien remembers had a lyrically warm, intimate, unregimented spirit that was missing at the Music Hall. The blackface tradition, in one form or another, dates from the colonial days when whites first saw and imitated Negro entertainers. As early as 1769, during a Manhattan performance of Isaac Bickerstaff's comic opera The Padlock, an actor named Lewis Hallam got drunk on the stage in his role of a Negro slave and brought the house down. This eventually led to "the novel, grotesque, original and surpassingly melodious Ethiopian Band entitled the Virginia Minstrels...