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Beirut to Jidda. Ahmed Murad is one of the few U.S. citizens ever to make the pilgrimage, and the road he took to get there was long and roundabout. Born in Lebanon, he came to the U.S. in 1902, armed with a railroad ticket to West Virginia, the names of relatives and not a word of English. But he learned fast, traveled far and lived well, until a quarrel with his Kentucky wife ended in divorce, and in 1947 he decided to go back to the Middle East. He bought a small house in Damascus, married again and settled down...
...will be , rain ∙, snow ∙, showers ∇, hail ∆, lightning ∠, thunderstorms β, hurricanes ∮. Using such symbols, weather prophets may or may not convince the public that they really know the difference between a snowstorm, say, and a Scotch mist. But it is doubtful that they will ever adequately replace NBC-TV's Tedi Thurman, who once announced: "The temperature in New York...
...never able to make it into the plush jazz caves where the money lies. Then in 1955 he had an offer to fill in at The Embers, reluctantly agreed to play with a mute, and quickly evolved the "good, happy style" that has brought the crowds running to him ever since...
...born roughly 50 years ago in Louisville. The son of a fireman, he had little interest in music until one day "I was standing on the corner, and a kid band was coming along, and I saw them trombones out in front. They were the shiniest, prettiest things I ever did see." Jonah's arms were too short to play the trombone, but he took up the trumpet, eventually graduated to the small Louisville combos-Tinsley's Royal Aces, Perdue's Pirates, etc. After that he "gigged around" with most of the famous bands...
...until the price reached ?160,000. At the ?250,000 mark, only Agnew and Koetser were still slugging. Then, with Koet-ser's 15th and final nod, two minutes after the opening bid. Auctioneer Wilson knocked down the painting for ?275,000 ($770,000)-highest price ever recorded for a single painting at public auction...