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...auto racing, they plaster the cars with brand names and turn them into speeding billboards, but if companies get football teams, the fans will see 22 rampaging advertisements on every play. This will take the game back to its roots in the 1920s, when we had the Decatur Staleys, owned by Staley's starch company, which later became the Chicago Bears. There was the Oorang Indians, Jim Thorpe's team named for the Oorang Airedale Kennels. In Japan today there are many corporate teams, including the Nippon Ham Fighters, owned by a pork producer, but that's baseball. Back...
...Australia were last year's come-on. One man was told his credit-card debt would be paid off; another was assured his employer would fly his dog overseas. A Chicago woman believed an agency that told her Iran was hiring female construction workers. Three construction workers in Decatur, Illinois, thought they had got a real deal with a "buddy package" to work on hotels and casinos in Aruba in the Netherlands Antilles. "What suckers we were," says Alan Berry, a 34-year-old laborer out of work for a year. "It's not like...
...dozens of clarinetists ranging from Woody Allen to Britain's Sammy Rimington and Japan's Ryoichi Kawai. Lewis died in 1968, but musicologist Bill Russell, 87, is keeping his message alive with the CD release of historic acetate recordings Russell made a half-century ago. (American Music, 1206 Decatur Street, New Orleans...
...Decatur, Ill., a primary-school teacher discovered the word God in a phonics textbook and ordered her class of seven-year-olds to strike it out, saying that it is against the law to mention God in a public school...
GEORGE LEWIS WITH KID SHOTS/THE GEORGE LEWIS RAGTIME JAZZ BAND OF NEW ORLEANS (American Music, 1206 Decatur St., New Orleans, La. 70116). These two CDs bracket the first decade of the so-called New Orleans jazz revival, spearheaded by this lyrical and passionate clarinetist who inspired jazz traditionalists around the world. The first album is a remastering of the legendary 1944 sides recorded by jazz historian William Russell; the second is a previously unissued 1952 session. Both capture the power and drive of Lewis at his peak...