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...Hamblin, a hot-button black conservative, on "the Nazi point of view" comment that cost Christina Jeffrey a Capitol Hill job: "Being a bigot does not void your First Amendment rights." The self-styled "Black Avenger," who is syndicated to 63 stations nationwide, has also railed against gun control and even against James Brady -- "the cripple guy" -- for promoting...
...true masters are motormouths like Hamblin, Boortz, Hannity -- and the supremo, Rush Limbaugh, whose syndicated sermon is attended by 20 million people a week on 660 stations. Talk radio trails only country music as the nation's most pervasive format; it commandeers more than 15% of the fragmented audience. More than 1,000 talk stations (up from 200 ten years ago), and hundreds more with Evangelical Christian commentators, deliver hot chat to an avid constituency. About half of all American adults listen to the format at least once a week for at least an hour, according to Talkers magazine...
...example of the work's appeal came in May of 1849, when on the same evening in New York City there were three simultaneous productions, starring three eminent Macbeths of the time--William Charles Macready, Thomas Hamblin, and Edwin Forrest. These performances led to what has become known as the Astor Place Riot--the worst fracas in theatrical history, besides which even the celebrated free-for-all in Paris at the premiere of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring seems pale. At the final tally in New York, 31 persons were killed and more than 150 injured. Such is the incredible...
Late bloomers get a new crack at academic training. Says Headmaster William Hamblin of London's Samuel Pepys Comprehensive School: "Last year 150 boys-90% of whom had come here as eleven-plus failures-were able to take the ordinary GCE exam. Four boys, also failures, took the advanced GCE. All four passed and all are now at London University. A tremendous achievement." This year Pepys has 30 sixth-formers poised for university entrance...
...were forged on the premises. Boys have built everything from lawnmowers to kitchens in the workshops. "In this school, the bright boy who wants to take up pottery, or the boy good with his hands who wants to tackle French, can do so as seriously as he likes," says Hamblin...