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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Honking Horns. Though hardly an overnight sensation (they grew out of a mildly successful 1960s outfit called the Volcanos), the Trammps are the latest example of what has come to be known on records as the Philadelphia sound. That music today dominates the rhythm-and-blues field much the way...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Enter the Disco Band | 9/6/1976 | See Source »

Not so, argue many conservatives, who agree with Billy Mounger, vice chairman of the Mississippi delegation. "If he goes out and builds up political lOUs," says Mounger, "he's going to be ready four years from now." Connally does not want to become Ford's campaign manager, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WINNERS & LOSERS: Some Soared, Some Sank | 8/30/1976 | See Source »

He is not spending all his efforts on launching his career as a matinee idol. Earlier this year, in Washington. D.C., he portrayed Martin Luther King Jr. in Josh Greenfeld's play I Have a Dream. He is currently working on a Universal back lot, playing the part of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Black Gable | 8/23/1976 | See Source »

Even as a youngster growing up on 110th Street in New York's Harlem, Williams was the darling of the culture-craving women of the family. His grandmother entertained him by reciting Longfellow. His twin sister, Loretta, an aspiring ballerina, pirouetted through the apartment. Their mother had studied to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Black Gable | 8/23/1976 | See Source »

Nowadays Billy Dee is firmly tied with a Gordyan knot-a guaranteed annual income of $200,000 whether he works or not, plus percentages of his films. A loner who lives quietly in a modest three-bedroom house in Laurel Canyon with his Japanese-American wife Teruko and three children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Black Gable | 8/23/1976 | See Source »

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