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...with people and make them understand the tradition," says Hargrove, whose Diamond in the Rough album has won high praise from jazz critics. Marsalis considers such proselytizing part of his legacy: "I'm just passing on the stuff that people like ((Harry)) 'Sweets' Edison, Art Blakey, Max Roach and Elvin Jones told me. I mean, I'm acting on a mandate from them...
Here's one way to think of it: 20 years ago, Kareem and 208 other men were playing in the NBA. By the end of the '70s, 18 of them remained. In 1983, two. When Elvin Hayes -- Kareem's particular college rival -- retired from the Houston Rockets in 1984, one. Since then, just Kareem. He has amassed the most games (1,525) and points (38,028) in history, but the telling indicator is that only three scorers in the league today have been even half as prolific. Recalling players past, he says, "They've come and gone by generations...
...have it said they got the most out of a modest allotment. It's generally not true. A good number, maybe even a majority, are doing things that basically come very easy to them. Once, in an extraordinary fit of conscience -- just for an instant -- the basketball star Elvin Hayes actually refused his paycheck out of a sense that he hadn't earned it. After nearly decapitating Jack Nicklaus during a pro-am tournament, a wretched amateur golfer wondered with a sigh if Nicklaus ever shanked one. Softly, almost apologetically, the game's ultimate champion replied, "Three times, when...
...Hoping at the time that medical advances might someday solve the mystery of his affliction, Elvin-Lewis and Witte, then both at Washington University, froze samples of Robert R.'s blood, brain and other organs. Last June, four years after the AIDS virus was first isolated, Witte sent some of the frozen samples to Tulane University, where they were definitively analyzed by Virologist Robert Garry. "There's no question that the tissue was positive for AIDS," Garry states. In fact, Robert R.'s blood reacted to all nine markers used in the highly sensitive Western blot test for AIDS antibodies...
Indeed, the history of AIDS in the U.S. may have a much longer prologue than was once suspected. "What we're saying is that AIDS has been around for a long time but just wasn't recognized," Elvin-Lewis explains. It is possible, Tulane's Garry speculates, that the AIDS virus mutated and became more lethal in the 1970s. To test that hypothesis, he plans to spend much of the next year or so attempting to reconstruct viral genes from Robert R.'s tissue. "We know that the virus was not epidemic in 1969, so we might be able...