Word: franked
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Roger Rosenblatt's commentary on the extreme sport of base jumping [ESSAY, July 19] included a reference to the death of a man who parachuted from the top of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park. The correct spelling of the jumper's name is Frank Gambalie III. Also, he did not die from the jump but apparently drowned after diving into a river as he fled from park rangers...
...tagged "Sweetie Pie" by saxophonist Lester Young in the 1930s and finally just "Sweets," Edison had a warm, soft trumpet sound that was beloved by bands and singers. He worked with everyone from Count Basie (with whom he played for 12 years) to Billie Holiday, Nat King Cole and Frank Sinatra...
...take to pay off a balance with only the minimum. (For instance, if you paid just the minimum 2% on a $5,000 balance at 15%, it would take you 32 years, and you'd pay $7,700 in interest.) "This is an industry that's run amuck," says Frank Torres, legislative counsel at Consumer Union. "Fees are another way to squeeze money out of consumers...
...most helpfully surrounded by a nine-foot wall. All courtesy of Vardis Vardinoyiannis, whose wife knows the bride?s aunt, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, from a few Special-Olympics bake sales, and all impenetrable to a ravenous press which had to settle for tidbits like "the sounds of Frank Sinatra music and the clinking of glasses could be heard coming from inside the compound." (Associated Press). The bittersweet Baileys then sailed off for a honeymoon cruise on the Vardinoyiannis yacht (unconfirmed) and were never heard from again...
...DIED. FRANK M. JOHNSON JR., 80, uncompromising federal judge from Alabama whose rulings invigorated the civil rights movement; in Montgomery. Johnson helped desegregate many of Montgomery's public facilities and cleared the way for Martin Luther King Jr. and thousands of supporters to march from Selma to Montgomery in 1965. Governor George Wallace called him a "scalawagging...integrating liar." A Republican appointee, Johnson always insisted he was simply upholding "the supremacy...