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...Maine. In the rugged community of Farmington, pop. 7,400, where logging and farming provide seasonal work and unemployment is twice the national average, pride runs deep. A handshake binds a contract almost as often as a signature. So when a local writer walked unannounced into the office of Franklin Memorial Hospital president Richard Batt to explain that he could not pay for his son's hospitalization, Batt wanted to help the man meet his obligation honorably. After agreeing to adjust the bill, Batt asked--in an afterthought really--if the writer would help rework the hospital's brochures...
Winston Churchill was so taken with the band in wartime that he sat in the rain with his White House host, Franklin Roosevelt, and sang the verses of the Battle Hymn of the Republic...
...Amount he receives from Franklin for wearing the Franklin batting glove he prefers...
...operating system will leave its mark, but the transition will "not be as radical" as the one several years ago, when most college computers were upgraded from Windows 3.1 to Windows 95, said Director of Harvard Arts and Sciences Computer Services Franklin M. Steen...
...particularly impressed by the profile of "the Queen of Soul," Aretha Franklin. You explored her legendary career in depth and noted her ties to gospel music. Not to disparage the excellent essay on black female blues singers, I do have one quibble. The true liberators of black female singers were the great gospel women. Their vocal and physical expressions were a potent, yet separate, part of the patriarchal church. Mahalia Jackson once said, "Anybody singing the blues is in a deep pit yelling for help." And she also commented, "Gospel music is nothing but singing of good tidings--spreading...