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...Jones dissolved the group in 1936, Woody reorganized it as "the Band That Plays the Blues." By the early 1940s, he was ready to gallop with the Herds. For the past 24 years he has spent only about six weeks a year in the hilltop Hollywood home overlooking Sunset Boulevard that used to belong to Humphrey Bogart. The rest of the time he is on the road, playing 200 or more concerts a year, taking his wife Charlotte along on the bigger trips...
...island, from the city of Havana to the easternmost province of Oriente. The first day we had a free afternoon to spend in the capital. I started to walk with some friends to the old part of the city, but as soon as we got off a main boulevard, kids started to come from everywhere to talk to us. Everybody we saw had on clean clothes in good condition and looked as healthy as white teenagers from Newton. The contrast with my memories of Guatemala and Mexico was amazing. And the way people related to us, and this was true...
...join fellow bishops in opposing efforts to repeal the state's fair-housing laws in 1964. The Immaculate Heart nuns were barred from archdiocesan schools because Mclntyre disapproved of their internal reforms. While Mclntyre was saying midnight Mass last Christmas in St. Basil's Church on Wilshire Boulevard, a group of Mexican-Americans called Catolicos por la Raza (Catholics for the People) staged a demonstration outside to protest the building's alleged construction cost of $3,000,000. Mclntyre later likened the demonstrators to "the rabble" that crucified Christ...
...Billy Wilder had a problem: finding a piece of furniture for his afternoon naps. "After all," the famed movie director (Sunset Boulevard, The Apartment) confided to a friend, "a man of my reputation simply can't afford to have something that looks like a casting couch in his office. It's too obvious a symbol of lechery...
...polluter just shrugs: "Scott is running for higher office, no question about it." If so, he has the right background. A graduate of the Kent College of Law, Scott rose to vice president of Chicago's National Boulevard Bank before winning election as state treasurer in 1964 and attorney general in 1968. He is trim, handsome and only 43. Along with his political ambitions, though, Scott just hates pollution, as he has ever since his daughter was born with asthma in a smoggy Chicago suburb. "I had to carry her in my arms while she gasped for every breath...