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...project is funded by royalties Raitt receives from the Bonnie Raitt Signature Series Stratocaster--the first Fender-brand guitar to honor a female musician...
When Henry Grunwald left Vienna in August 1938, he was a boy alone, carrying a single suitcase and fleeing the Nazis. When he returned in 1988, he was the ambassador of the United States of America, riding in a limousine with the Stars and Stripes fluttering from its fender. His first assignment was to register his adopted country's displeasure with the Nazi collaborator Kurt Waldheim, who had become his homeland's President...
...AMERICA: When Henry Grunwald left Vienna in August 1938, he was a boy alone, carrying a single suitcase and fleeing the Nazis. When he returned in 1988, he was the ambassador of the United States of America, riding in a limousine with the Stars and Stripes fluttering from its fender. In the intervening years Grunwald, now 74, learned English, met Marilyn Monroe and scores of Presidents and Prime Ministers (in roughly that order of importance), became the editor of TIME magazine and then editor-in-chief of its parent company and thus one of the most powerful people in American...
Seles has grown in other ways. Her musical tastes went from Madonna to Hendrix. During her time off, she studied French and learned to shoot pool and play the guitar, even buying a Fender Stratocaster. She may have had another ax to grind. Seles is still annoyed at the way she was treated by her sisters on the tour. "They were supportive of me the day I was stabbed," she told the New York Times, "but by the next Monday in Rome they were already standing up to take my ranking away. Gabby [Gab riela] Sabatini was the only person...
...column of marching men. The impact spun him into the marchers, spilling them like bowling pins. Peise gripped the wheel more tightly and stepped on the gas. No one said a word. Nor did the sergeant stop a few hours later when one of the soldiers riding the front fender slipped off and fell beneath the treads of a tank. My brother, now 56, says that once in a while, in a dream, he still hears the dying man's screams...