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...Hank Williams Jr. has a roarer going on over at a big spread near Nashville. It's really a video event, fired up just so there could be a raucous, celebrity-studded promo for Hank's hit tune, All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming over Tonight. And there it is, a real booze-and-barbecue bash, with lots of huggy-bunny country gals sashaying all around folks who dropped in, sometimes via limo, to pay old Hank Jr. their respects. There's Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson. Hank Jr. sings his song, roaming all around the large...
...forget about all those snazzy houses and all those famous folks. Hank and Willie and Waylon and other "outlaws" of the '70s have suddenly become -- no, could it be? -- the older generation in country music. The Crowell shindig is right where the action in country music has moved: the crossroads. There has been a lot of traffic there lately, at the delicate junction where country meets its past, sizes up its future and -- probably most important -- guns its musical motor and goes off in its own direction. And Crowell, a wonderfully gifted songwriter and rambunctious performer, isn't even driving...
...Jimmy Piersall, Larry Doby and Roy Campanella, they were as preliminary as Jack Dempsey's first fights under the name Kid Blackie. In the Ring book, Martin's official record begins in 1957 at New York City's Copacabana nightclub, where Yankee Teammates Mickey Mantle, Whitey Ford, Yogi Berra, Hank Bauer and Johnny Kucks were toasting Martin's 29th birthday at the same time that a Bronx man named Edward Jones was celebrating the end of the bowling season...
...property of Washington Trial Lawyer Edward Bennett Williams, famed counsel to Joe McCarthy, Jimmy Hoffa and the Birdman of Alcatraz. No local buyer could be found when Williams bought the team for $12 million; now it is said to be worth $60 million. Williams' general manager until last October, Hank Peters, insists that "winning and losing are both team efforts" and the blame for the Orioles' decline belongs to "me, the owner, the manager, the players and the farm system." But the emphasis should be on the owner. Like a lot of men who made it on their own hook...
...number-five singles is Hank Parichabutr, one of the three Crimson players that missed last year because of injuries. He teamed up with Leschly to reach the Rolex ITCA Easterns doubles quarterfinals...