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Other songwriters besides Jim Webb have reeled off a string of hit records, including two that won Grammy awards in the same year. Others have been asked to compose-and sometimes arrange and conduct-for such top singers as Barbra Streisand, Aretha Franklin and Glen Campbell. Others have formed their own publishing and production firms and boosted their annual income to $350,000. But for the others, such achievement has usually filled out a lifetime. Jim Webb has done it all in 18 months. Now one of the hot test talents in pop music...
...under way. Often the instrument is one human spirit, galvanized by an intolerable burden of contrition or shame. "I came to the conclusion that our country is very far from what we say it is in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution," says Alan S. Traugott, 44, of Glen Ellyn, Ill., a white suburb west of Chicago. In March, this conviction led Traugott to resign his five-figure income and position as manager of the Sears, Roebuck store in Englewood, a Chicago neighborhood that is predominantly black. Now jobless, he intends to dedicate himself full time...
...BEST ON RECORD (NBC. 9-10 p.m.).* The Grammy Awards show. The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences' presentation of this year's Grammys for outstanding performances on records. Those participating in the show include Bobbie Gentry, Glen Campbell, the Fifth Dimension, the Cannonball Adderly Quintet, Chet Atkins, Lou Rawls, Liza Minelli, Ravi Shankar, Yehudi Menuhin...
...former president (1917-29, 1932-45) and chairman (1929-55) of the National Biscuit Co., who raised a small biscuit-maker to a modern corporate giant (1967 sales: $764 million) that makes everything from crackers to candies, cookies to ice cream cones, and sells them throughout the world; in Glen Ridge...
...newest and most radical works are apt to be calm, cool and minimal. A case in point is Dan Flavin's "Indoor Routines," constructed of 54 pink and gold fluorescent tubes, which turned the main floor of Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art into a lurid, luminal glen...