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Stone lives in Greenwich, Conn., with Helen, his wife of 48 years...
David C. McLeod Old Greenwich, Connecticut...
...ever met," says Sister Theresa Robertson of New York City's Little Sisters of the Poor, a home for the aged. It's an unglamorous practice that Sacks maintains despite his considerable financial success. He has little regard for status. There are no diplomas on the walls of his Greenwich Village office. He has lost track of where his credentials are. Politics and organizations are to be avoided also. "The only memberships I enjoy," he says, "are in the British Pteridological Society and the American Fern Society...
...year later, he says, when he dropped out to try to make it on his own. Moving into a small Harlem apartment with four roommates ("There was always somebody jamming in the living room," he recalls), McBride spent his days practicing his instrument. Nights he hung out in Greenwich Village clubs studying the techniques of his idols, bassists like Ron Carter. "I could get an informal lesson anytime I wanted," McBride says. "I'd come home so inspired, I'd play all night...
...they have since the Vanguard opened, the faithful arrived at a scruffy block in Greenwich Village and descended a precarious flight of stairs to a dark, low-ceilinged room. Sitting on rickety wooden chairs, squeezed in along scarred red leather banquettes, they heard, over six nights, the sort of performers who have made the Vanguard the Mecca of Hip for the past half-century: jazz diva Shirley Horn, Beat poet Allen Ginsberg, cafa swell Bobby Short, folk singer Pete Seeger and Professor Irwin Corey, the "World's Foremost Authority," who was once a comic mainstay of the club. Back...