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DIED. Muddy Waters, 68, the Grammy award-winning blues singer and guitarist whose vibrant Delta sound influenced a generation of rock musicians, including Jimi Hendrix and the Rolling Stones, who took their name from one of his songs; of cardiac arrest; in the Chicago suburb of Westmont. Born McKinley Morganfield, the son of a Mississippi sharecropper, Waters had a guttural baritone that soared in songs such as Hoochie Coochie Man and Got My Mojo Working...
Those two Harvard boys from the fraternal order of lambda sigma delta returned to the old campus last week for the first time since being ousted 20 years ago for involving students in their experiments with mind-altering drugs. Timothy Leary, 62, the pop promoter of LSD in the '60s, and Richard Alpert, 49, now known as Baba Ram Dass, showed up in a rented hall thick with students, many of whom were on mother's milk when the pair achieved their notoriety. Harvard, said Leary, is still "the main line of American transcendental thinking...
...Delta Star, Wambaugh...
Welty's novels include "The Robber Bridegroom," "Delta Wedding," and "Losing Battles." Her short fiction, which originally appeared in several literary magazines were recently published in the "Collected Works of Eudora Welty...
...Delta Star, Wambaugh...