Word: homelies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dangerous Dark JL Ages and beyond was the castle, with its great moat, drawbridge and armed men glaring from the turrets. The era seethed with raids and counterraids, kidnapings and ransoms. No traveler was secure. Even Richard Coeur-de-Lion, King of England, so feared capture as he headed home from the Crusades in 1192 that he scuttled across central Europe in assorted disguises. No luck. Seized by Austria's Duke Leopold, poor Richard spent a year in captivity before his weary subjects began to cough up 150,000 silver marks-twice the annual revenue of England...
...quality has now decreed an Austrian: Herbert von Karajan, 60, who is already busy enough as conductor of Salzburg Festivals and the music director of the Berlin Philharmonic. In Paris, the indefatigable maestro will double as music director and conductor, lead the Orchestre in a series of concerts at home, plus several festival appearances and tours of Japan and the U.S. Says he: "I consider the Orchestre a French institution and that it must be directed by a Frenchman in the near future. But until then I put myself entirely at its disposition...
Class Strata. Though everyone on the rock scene is aware of the groupie phenomenon, it is next to impossible to know how many there are-mainly because rock stars, like most young men, tend to brag about their conquests. They come, says Zappa, "from any home that has contact with rock and roll and with radio and records. That's everybody." Zappa contends that there are thousands of them, ranging in age all the way from 50 ("Although they have to look damned good at that age to get any action") down...
...blues began feeling good to Johnny at the age of eleven, when he first heard the records of Robert Johnson, Howlin' Wolf and Lightnin' Hopkins on the radio down home in Beaumont, Texas. He began playing along on a hand-me-down guitar from his grandfather. Three years later, Johnny, 14, and Brother Edgar, 11, had their own band, Johnny and the Jammers. They made $8 a night for gigs across the border in Louisiana, where clubs were more lenient about age requirements. Edgar recalls that though Johnny only took enough lessons to pick up a few chords...
...close of the basketball season last year, Jim Tillman and Gary Schull were stars with no place to shine. Till man, one of the highest scorers in the na tion in his junior year at Loyola Uni versity in Chicago, was drafted by the home-town Bulls last year to play in the National Basketball Association. But when the Bulls failed to offer a contract to his liking, Tillman decided to forgo pro ball for a season...