Word: friedman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...made illegal whisky-quite literally by the light of the moon. While their ranks have been decimated, a few moonshiners still ply their illicit trade in the deep recesses of Appalachia. Feeling rather like David Livingstone in search of the Nile's source. Correspondent William Friedman was blindfolded and led through the labyrinthine Eastern Kentucky hills to meet one of the last of those who brew "white lightning" in hidden caves. His report...
Twelve juniors have been elected to the Alpha Chapter Phi Beta Kappa at Harvard. Those elected are: Vincent J. Cheng of Currier House and Ontario. Can.: Raphael M. Cohen of Quincy House and Quebec. Can; Roger A. Freedman of Adams House and Los Angeles. Cal: Rohn S. Friedman of Dunster House and St. Louis Park. Minn: John P. Gibbons of Lowell House and Marblehead: Patrick J. Glynn III of Winthrop House and Chicago, III.: Jeffrey C. Herrmann of Quincy House and Clark's Summit, Pa.: Steven A. Kraft of Winthrop House and Princeton. N.J.: Rowell S. Melnick of Lowell House...
...Friedman is as lavish in his hospitality to musicians as in his admiration for them. After a hard session in the studio, he might take all 49 members of the band to dinner. Back at his Fort Lauderdale home, he has been known to fly in combos from New York to play the night away-with his music...
...that Friedman wrote his first song, and in 1965 that he made his first album (with the help of Arrangers Matty Matlock and Billy May). Nowadays he often works through the night, laying a lyric like the following on his wife's breakfast tray...
...arrange 47 of his songs for such combinations as concert band, marching band, men's glee club, women's glee club and brass ensemble -then presented the whole package of sheet music to Ohio State University. "There's nothing cheap about Mr. Friedman," says May. "When in doubt, add more. He's really a sweet...