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...time of his death in 1976, the image lodged in the public mind was of an aging billionaire with uncut hair and Fu Manchu fingernails hidden in a darkened Las Vegas hotel room. An unhealthy disregard for reality became synonymous with the recluse's name. A fake autobiography by Clifford Irving and the forged "Mormon" will that brought fame to Melvin Dummar only made matters worse. One could never be sure of anything written by or about Howard Hughes...
There were three other members of Creedence--Doug Clifford, Stu Cook and John's brother Tom--but it quickly became clear that it was John's band. This caused some resistance among the others. They were chafing against the autocracy of a young man whose Arcadian visions of a mythic America (Green River, Proud Mary) were as ample and unsentimental as his urban cameos (Down on the Corner), his musical allegories (Travelin' Band), his raunchy rockers (Sweet Hitch-Hiker) and his heartsick love songs (Wrote a Song for Everyone...
...script of Pack of Lies had been made into a film, the results might have been different. The tension, paranoia, and anguish inadequately present in the text could have been drawn out and accentuated by a talented film director. Clifford Williams, the luckless captain of this production, can do no more than block the actors and leave them to themselves...
...enrolled just this year; only 30% are Republicans. "This kind of handwringing about the party is familiar and knee jerk," says Mondale Campaign Chairman James Johnson, refusing to see any general portents in Tuesday's terrible results. "It was a victory of personality far more than party." Clark Clifford, an astute party elder, is not fretting either. He recalls that four years after the Democratic rout of 1964, the Republicans took the White House, and that four years after the Republican rout of 1972, the Democrats took it back. "I've been in and around presidential campaigns...
...Clifford Sheehan III and David Reese scored next for the Crimson. They finished 13th and 14th respectively...