Word: fame
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...tail into a hurdy-gurdy handle, and it mooed music as he cranked away. Another bovine's teeth became a xylophone on which he beat out a tune. In short, Willie had what its more pretentious competitors lacked--energy and freedom. And its creator was on his way to fame, riches and immortality. --By Richard Schickel
When I finished the marathon, Hitler waved to me, and I thumbed my nose at him. That's my claim to fame. But Jesse told me, "Kelley, Hitler waved to me, and I waved back." That's actually what happened. When he won his fourth medal that day, after setting three world records, Jesse was the hero of the whole Games. To everyone. Except for Hitler. The dictator looked almost unbeatable at the time, but Jesse's victories upset his theory about an Aryan master race. Jesse Owens was the greatest track athlete we have ever...
...stepped to the plate in a Dodgers' uniform, he was a mature 28 years old that April day. (By contrast, Derek Jeter was playing in his eighth major league season when he reached that age last June.) But in a magnificent 10-year Hall of Fame career Robinson made up for lost time--his and that of the great Negro League ballplayers who never got the chance to shine in the Bigs. When Robinson stepped onto the field, it was the day baseball finally earned the right to be called the national pastime. --By Richard Corliss
...turn seven lengths in front and exited 20 to the good. And then he turned it loose for the adoring mob. At the finish he was 31 lengths in front. The 2:24 set a world record for 1 1/2 miles and a new standard for equine fame...
Imagine the pressure to pick good make-out music when you're a rock legend wooing jazz's sultriest vocalist. Yes, it must be hard to be ELVIS COSTELLO, now squiring DIANA KRALL--to the Grammys, to Costello's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction, to a London fund raiser at which the pair performed a duet (Elton John's Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word). Costello, 47, and Krall, 38, met presenting an award at last year's Grammys. "It's a wonderful thing, and it's special to me. I'm really happy," Krall told...