Word: earle
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...soulful blues-based tenor saxophonist whose 1970 crossover hit, Sugar, inspired today's "smooth jazz"; of a stroke; in New York City. A three-time Grammy nominee, Turrentine played with Ray Charles, Max Roach and Herbie Hancock early in his career and in 1953 replaced John Coltrane in Earl Bostic's band. He also made forays into pop music, including a 1976 jazz interpretation of Stairway to Heaven...
...been telling us for years that you're going to "do more than any other man in history to change the course of humanity." And that's a tall order - I mean, we all know your putting skills are getting better, and that your long game is unparalleled, but Earl's talking about you edging out Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. for first place in the all-time fantastic person sweepstakes. So as you contemplate that little task, I wanted to send you a few pointers that may smooth your path to all-encompassing greatness...
...parents: Your mom, who studiously avoids the spotlight, appears to be a lovely woman. (And that's not coincidental.) Your dad, on the other hand, reminds us all a little bit too much of Bela Karolyi. Whenever old Earl appears on a talk show, praising you to the skies and harping over his overwhelming influence on your game, I half expect him to launch into proud reminiscences of Kerri Strug's bone-crunching, gold-medal-winning vault at the '96 Olympic Games. There's something about your dad that makes me nervous. Nothing I can put my finger on - just...
From the start, his life was dotted with feats of genius that even now seem incomprehensible. At 10 months, having spent his infancy watching his dad hit golf balls in the family garage in Cypress, Calif., Tiger picked up one of Earl's clubs and smacked a ball into the practice net--left-handed. He won a putting contest against Bob Hope at two. By six he was playing and beating 18-year-olds...
...team sports, but "the only [other] sport I truly loved competing in was track and cross-country. For some reason I loved it--I'm sorry, I liked it. I loved golf." He was nearly as assiduous as a student. "I never had to ask Tiger to practice," says Earl, "and I never had to ask him if he had his homework done...