Word: hellos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vegetable awards. It was the Wheatland! Sesquicentennial or Octo-something, a real celebration. People kept running up to the microphone and yelling "Let's hear it Three cheers for Whestland!" Meanwhile the local officer of the law--clearly the big man in town--was strolling around as everybody said hello Bill, he being an uncle or cousin to most of them. The Scruggs Revue was definitely the high point of the evening. They were using Vassar Ciements then, and were restricted to pretty straight bluegrass, and the wheatlanders impressed upon them to do "Salty Dog" twice. I wonder if they...
Died. Tim Buckley, 28, folk balladeer of the late '60s; of an apparent heart attack; in his Santa Monica, Calif., home. Buckley's sensitive lyrics (Goodbye and Hello) and ragged, mother-me looks earned him adulation beginning with his first album in 1966, but his shift to jazzier, more experimental forms cut sharply into his popularity and income...
...explains DeVoss, who during four days in London accompanied the pop star on a round of shopping, dinners and post-midnight gambling, where John never bet less than ?100. Cruising around the city in his Rolls-Royce, Elton would spot people connected with his career and stop to say hello while DeVoss garnered quotes. Among the friends they encountered: Harry Nilsson, Ringo Starr, Paul and Linda McCartney...
...Bernstein. Baryshnikov has plunged eagerly into an investigation of American culture. He spends his spare time at plays, operas and especially movies. He is a considerable student of television, whether afternoon cartoons or old movies on the late show (he has worked up imitations of Humphrey Bogart's "Hello, sweetheart" and any number of commercial pitchmen). In a more Russian vein, he has begun reading Alexander Solzhenitsyn, whose books fill him with "pain and awe," according to Mrs. Saunder...
...surprisingly, Connors has alienated most of his fellow pros. "He ain't one of the boys," says Arthur Ashe. "Right now he's sorely misguided. We hardly say hello." As a group, the world's top players are almost unanimously for Newcombe. "Never will I root so hard for an Australian to beat an American," admits one U.S. player. Their dislike for Connors is based only in part on his court behavior. They also resent the ways in which he has thumbed his nose at the tennis establishment. Items...