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...David Dalton and his collaborators on The Rolling Stones: The First Twenty Years never wonder about who's the best in this business; their partisanship is clear from the opening paragraph. They see no need to justify the Stones' claim to the throne. In 192 over-sized pages of pictures, interviews and narrative, the authors and editors seek the origins of the myth and explain how it has evolved over the past two decades. Nobody will be worrying about this kind of stuff Monday night in Hartford, but it's required reading for the true fanatic...
Though sloppily written, the book conveys the crucial information and images in a series of topical installments, suitable for use as a read-along guide to the path from "Not Fade Away" to "Start Me Up." Twenty Years doesn't offer too much analysis; its strength is Dalton's willingness to let the Stones and their intimates speak for themselves, sometimes in tedious, drug-muddled rockstarese, but more often in concise, intelligent English...
...signatures are part of the self-characterization. Formidable, hatchet-wielding Carry Nation styled herself "Home Defender." The last survivor of the outlaw Dalton gang scrawled "The Compliments of Emmett Dalton," covering all occasions. General George Patton in pearl-handled regalia penned a cloying confection about his boyhood church...
...draw in doubles made things difficult for Harvard's B team of Bougas and Schulman, as the netwomen lost in the first round to the eventual winners. Yale's DiMambro and Kathy Dalton, 6-4, 6-1. "We played poorly and they played well," Bougas said yesterday...
...came this week with the announcement that three women and a Black had been hired to fill assistant professorships. The appointments will substantially increase the number of minorities and women on the Law Faculty, which currently includes one Black and two women. The four incoming assistant professors--Clare Dalton, Christopher F. Edley Jr., Susan Estrich, and Martha Minow--will probably be eligible for tenure in three years under a policy in which the school usually offers tenure after three years. Cheryl D. Hoffmann, president of the Women's Law Association, this week called the appointments "absolutely terrific." But Stephen...