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...JOHN LEE HOOKER WITH BROWNIE McGHEE & SONNY TERRY--Those who like their blues pure, tough, and raw should make it over to the new Joe's Place in Inman Square on Sunday night. Hooker, McGhee and Terry--three blues performers famous for just those qualities--will be playing two shows. --P.M.S...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pop and Jazz | 1/17/1974 | See Source »

...HOOKER WITH McGHEE & TERRY--Sun. Jan. 20 at Joe's Place, Inman Square, 8 and 11 p.m., $3 each show...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pop and Jazz | 1/17/1974 | See Source »

...awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho is like granting Xaviera Hollander (the Happy Hooker) an award for extreme virtue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 19, 1973 | 11/19/1973 | See Source »

...most familiar-indeed, unavoidable-commercial pitchmen, touting his much criticized engine-oil additive as the "racer's edge." A little more than a week ago, Granatelli, 50, got the razor's edge when his board of directors abruptly cut him loose and replaced him with John J. Hooker Jr., entrepreneur and sometime politician. Hooker was hand-picked by Derald H. Ruttenberg, chairman of the widely diversified Studebaker-Worthington Inc., which owns a controlling interest in STP. The keenly publicity-conscious Granatelli was almost as incensed by what he believed was inadequate press coverage of his ouster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: The Razor's Edge at STP | 10/15/1973 | See Source »

...Hooker, 43, the man who replaces Granatelli, has a kind of Midas-in-reverse track record. Almost all of his business enterprises-including Minnie Pearl's Chicken System, Mahalia Jackson's Chicken System and the Royal Castle fast-food operation in Miami-have been unsuccessful. Southern aristocrat, he ran twice for Governor of Tennessee and lost both times. Said an earnest Hooker last week: "I really don't know the reason for the change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: The Razor's Edge at STP | 10/15/1973 | See Source »

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