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...boys chose the name for their group tells much about them. Lead Singer John Fogerty, who writes most of their material, got his musical inspiration from Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley records. He learned chords from a Burl Ives songbook. Doug Clifford didn't even know how to play drums when John invited him to join. He converted a pair of old pool cues into drumsticks on a school lathe, bought a snare drum and began practicing. That was a decade ago, when they were 13 and schoolboys in suburban El Cerrito, Calif. With Stu Cook on piano...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock: Lean, Clean and Bluesy | 6/27/1969 | See Source »

...lifted off the runway at Pleiku in South Viet Nam's Central Highlands last week, the Air Force C-130 Hercules transport acted almost like a frisky jet fighter. With Air Force Major General Burl McLaughlin pushing it along at full power, the craft climbed rapidly to 12,500 ft. before leveling off for the hour-long return flight to Saigon. McLaughlin's desire to gain altitude quickly, a routine precaution among pilots in Viet Nam, was heightened in this case both by the Viet Cong's post-Tef offensive and by the unusual payload that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Mar. 7, 1969 | 3/7/1969 | See Source »

KELLOGG'S PRESENTS THE BANANA SPLITS ADVENTURE HOUR (NBC, 10:30-11:30 a.m.). Burl Ives narrates a dramatization of Robert Lawson's award-winning book, Rabbit Hill, which is about a group of animals and their feelings toward man. Repeat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jan. 17, 1969 | 1/17/1969 | See Source »

...HOLLYWOOD PALACE (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). It's country-and-western night, with Hosts Roy Rogers and Dale Evans and their guests Burl Ives, George Gobel, Minnie Pearl, Jeannie C. Riley, Sonny James and a hillbilly singing group, Stoney Mt. Cloggers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jan. 17, 1969 | 1/17/1969 | See Source »

HALLMARK HALL OF FAME (NBC, 7-8:30 p.m.). "Pinocchio." TV adaptation of the children's story, starring Peter Noone as Pinocchio and Burl Ives as Gepetto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Dec. 6, 1968 | 12/6/1968 | See Source »

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