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...this April afternoon, Johnson is just one of the many charges of Baylor coach Clyde Hart, who, come to think of it, looks like the Old Testament version of God as track coach. "Let me see it," Hart says to Johnson as the runner takes the track in his new U.S.A. unitard. "What do you think of it?" Johnson asks Hart. "Well," says the coach, "I think the U.S.A. insignia is too subtle and the Nike swoosh is too bright. But that's the point, I guess." Just then another of Hart's runners, Marlon Ramsey, walks by. "Look...
Johnson may seem like Superman on the track, but he is decidedly Clark Kent off it. "He hasn't changed a bit since he came to me as a freshman," says Hart, who has been coaching at Baylor for 33 years. "Good head on his shoulders, great work ethic even then. His parents did an excellent job of raising...
...runner, Johnson began to blossom in his senior year, though he was still only the third best sprinter in Texas upon graduation. When Hart recruited Johnson for Baylor, located 100 miles south of Dallas, the coach thought he was just getting another runner for his 4 x 100-m relay team. "I didn't see him as a Southwest Conference champion, much less a national champion," says Hart. "But it's not the first time I was wrong, or the last." Johnson might have made the 1988 Olympic team as a sophomore, but he suffered a stress fracture...
...work history. He said he was the public-relations man for an Atlantic City casino, but that job requires a license, which, according to the Casino Control Commission, he never obtained. Working as a gofer and advance man for Democratic campaigns in the 1980s--it was on the 1984 Hart campaign that he met ex-cop Marceca--he became known as a teller of tall tales, often turning his bit parts into leading roles. In 1986, after working on Colorado Representative Tim Wirth's successful Senate bid, Livingstone landed a job he was happy to call "director of transition...
Together--and often working with the brilliant arranging skills of Nelson Riddle--Fitzgerald and Granz then went on to songbooks for the likes of Jerome Kern, George and Ira Gershwin, Harold Arlen, Duke Ellington, Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, Irving Berlin and Johnny Mercer, the great composers of the great era of American popular music. Those songbooks became the foundation of a legacy, the single source for a musical standard that Fitzgerald, as much as anyone, helped make timeless. "Some kids in Italy call me 'Mama Jazz,'" she recalled. "I thought that was so cute. As long as they...