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...dashing Tidewater cavalier, Whistler never became an officer, let alone saw action in the Civil War. This insufficiency troubled him and accounts for a curious adventure he undertook in 1866, when he sailed from France to Chile--a long and grueling trip across the Atlantic and around the Horn--to be present at a Spanish naval blockade of the port of Valparaiso. By the end of the year he was back in Paris, with a few crepuscular seascapes but no honorable scars to show for his excursion...
...Jones ultimately chose to follow the jazz life, a through route from home to perdition. "My father," he recalls, "thought jazz was the music of the devil." The devil took him straight to the Apple; took his younger brothers too. Elvin Jones became a wizard drummer; Thad, a superb horn player...
...much has changed. Does it really fit today?" Horn said of the swimsuit competition...
...personally hope today's announcement will engender a national debate," Leonard Horn, chief executive of the Miss America Organization, said Wednesday. "Feminists have accused the pageant of exploitation. The question is, what about the American people...
...Horn acknowledged that ratings are obviously part of the reason the pageant is holding the vote the night of the contest rather than before...