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Haden put down his professional roots in Los Angeles, winning fame first as a session man, then as creator of two formidable West Coast jazz groups, the Liberation Orchestra and Quartet West. He met Jones three years ago, when both did guest turns on an Abbey Lincoln-Stan Getz album. Then, at a Verve Records anniversary celebration at New York's Carnegie Hall, Haden, with a little trepidation, cornered the dapper pianist backstage, proposing that they do an album of spirituals together. Jones agreed simply by starting to suggest song titles...
That triumph made Salk one of the most celebrated men of the 1950s. Streets and schools were named for him; in polls he ranked with Gandhi and Churchill as a hero of modern history. Though his fame was expertly fostered by the public-relations machinery of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis and its March of Dimes campaign, which helped finance Salk's work, national adulation was still an unexpected fate for a dedicated scientist in an unglamorous field...
There was a guy. I won't name names because he, like most of my friends (who, nonetheless, I won't spare), could probably think of ways he'd rather earn his Harvard fame...
Having so dramatically fallen to earth, Scott O'Grady last week was thrown into the sun. The bright, hot rays of instant fame enveloped him: newspapers put him on their front pages and magazines on their covers; he appeared on all three network morning shows the very same day; and the Clinton Administration and the Air Force exploited his pluck and Gary Cooperish innocence, determined that he be asked no questions about the confused policy that had him flying over Bosnia in the first place. When properly combined, three volatile elements generate American celebrity: the media, the public...
RECOVERING. WHITEY FORD, 66, retired baseball great; from cancer; on Long Island, New York. The Yankee Hall of Fame pitcher revealed he'd had a cancerous tumor removed from behind his left ear last December in an eight-hour operation. He has been receiving radiation treatment...