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...they're there in two hours. With the red tape, it takes forever to make something happen," DiBenedetto says. So whenever Philadelphia cops went to Europe on vacation, DiBenedetto begged them to do some legwork for him. He even used his own vacation time to knock on doors. Hank Harrison, a Grateful Dead biographer and the father of Courtney Love, had lent Einhorn a few dollars in Britain. But neither Harrison nor British rock star Peter Gabriel, twice visited by Einhorn, knew he was an accused murderer. DiBenedetto suspected Gabriel was funneling money to Einhorn. Gabriel told Scotland Yard...
DIED. CHET ATKINS, 77, country-music guitarist whose unique finger-picking style influenced younger musicians from George Harrison to George Benson; in Nashville, Tenn. Atkins played on hit records with Elvis Presley (Heartbreak Hotel) and Hank Williams (Jambalaya), and sold 75 million copies of his own albums. Along with Vince Gill, he led all country artists in Grammy awards, with...
...NOTES: Ripken is one of only seven players to amass more than 400 home runs and 3,000 hits. The six others are Hank Aaron, Willie Mays, Eddie Murray, Stan Musial, Dave Winfield & Carl Yastrzemski... Pete Rose owns the 11th- and 15-longest playing streaks in major league history (745; 678). The sum of those streaks still falls 1,209 games short of Ripken's mark... Ripken holds the major league record for home runs hit by a shortstop, with 345... 5,045 players were put on the disabled list from the time Ripken started his consecutive games streak...
Country--like pop music in general--has been regressing to childhood in recent years. Teen acts like Billy Gilman and Jessica Andrews are winning airplay on radio and face time on TV, but much of the music that's being made would make Hank Williams cry even harder into his beer. Recent country-music sales have been flat. In the first quarter of 2001, according to SoundScan, country sold 14, 871 ,000 CDs, albums and tapes, a 106,000 drop from the same quarter last year. And country seems slowly to be losing listeners to rap and rock, with...
...DIED. HANK KETCHAM, 81, creator of the impish cartoon character Dennis the Menace and his crotchety neighbor Mr. Wilson; in Pebble Beach, Calif. Ketcham conceived the strip in October 1950 after his own mischievous four-year-old, named Dennis, caused his exasperated mother to exclaim to Ketcham, "Your son is a menace!" (Father and son were later estranged.) In 1951 Ketcham began drawing the strip, which ran for 50 years in 1,000 newspapers and 48 countries...