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Everybody had a band: not only Springsteen and Southside, but also Miami Steve, Vini ("Mad Dog") Lopez (who played drums on Bruce's first two albums) and Garry Tallent (now bass guitarist for the E Street Band). They all would appear at a dive called the Upstage Club for $15 a night, work from 8 p.m. to 5 a.m., then party together, play records and adjourn till the next afternoon, when they would meet on the boardwalk to check the action and talk music. For sport everyone played Monopoly, adding a few refinements that made the game more like...
...successive invading waves of Carthaginians, Romans, Visigoths and Franks out of their fastnesses in the Pyrenees, and they were the only tribe in Europe that ever defeated the Prankish King Charlemagne. A Basque independent republic flourished briefly in 1936 during the Spanish Civil War, but Hitler's Stuka dive-bombers crushed it in the rubble of Guernica thus assuring the dictatorial control of all Spain by Franco...
...Penn, 17-8. Quarterback Bob Bateman was the catalyst behind a pair of second quarter touchdowns. The lanky chucker connected with tight end Ken O'Keefe for a 15-yard TD toss early in the period. The University of Vermont transfer capped a late drive with a one-yard dive...
...sidelines; as a consequence, they are now finding it very costly to get back into stocks. Forecasts Merrill Lynch Chairman Donald Regan: "The little guy will start in the fall with the second phase of the bull market"-that is, after stock prices have taken their first sharp dive and begin climbing again...
...seems unpromising material for a novel, and the author's plot is apparently more suited to pulp melodrama than to serious fiction. Her book begins with a young black woman improbably named Ursa Corregidora and plunks her down in a seedy Kentucky dive in the 1940s where she works as a blues singer. Enter Ursa's jealous husband, Mutt Thomas, who hurls the heroine down a staircase, injuring her so badly that her womb has to be removed. Twenty years pass. Ursa's second marriage fails. Her career takes her no higher than another dive across town...