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...short, a great American songwriter, with the clean-cut narrative gifts of Chuck Berry, the honesty of a Hank Williams and the rave-up musical skills of a perfesser in a Saturday night juke joint. The guys in Creedence were good, but they were outclassed; almost anyone would be, but that did not make the situation any easier. The group disbanded in 1972, and four years and two halfheartedly received solo albums later, Fogerty shut himself down. He did not stop making music--"Once you stop the next step is backward, and you're going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: High Tide on the Green River | 1/28/1985 | See Source »

Whether it was Ritter's adept questioning, or just a collection of exceedingly articulate athletes most probably a combination of both each chapter seems better than the last. Paul Waner, Rube Marquard, Edd Roush, Goose Goslin and Hank Greenberg have much to tell and tell it well. They talk of an America when baseball, like Jazz music, was not a respectable profession. It was difficult for Jimmy Austin to rush off to Dayton Ohio to play ball in a factory league for forty dollar's a month. It was equally difficult for Harry Hoper to overlook a good...

Author: By T. NICHOLAS Dawidoff, | Title: They Stopped Too Soon | 1/11/1985 | See Source »

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Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: All-Ivy First Team | 12/7/1984 | See Source »

Just two and a half minutes later, the Crimson got the ball back on the Yale 15 when Eli punter Hank Eaton fumbled the snap...

Author: By Jeffrey A.zucker, | Title: Yale Nukes Harvard, 30-27; Penn Left Atop the Ivy Pile | 11/17/1984 | See Source »

...from the crowd below. Within minutes the ship had rolled to a halt along the right side of the runway at Edwards Air Force Base, kicking up massive clouds of dust. Not since the landing of the first shuttle had NASA officials been so openly emotional. Said Mission Commander Hank Hartsfield: "We've got a good bird there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: We've Got a Good Bird There | 9/17/1984 | See Source »

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