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...after the Green Bay Packers cut him - he was the fourth-string quarterback, stuck behind the legendary Ty Detmer - Warner returned to his hometown of Cedar Falls, where the only thing he was throwing was gummy bears. While working the night shift for $5.50 an hour at the local Hy-Vee supermarket, he and his bored co-workers would chuck the gooey candies at each other to pass the time...
...unchained melody, one of the most recorded songs of the 20th century and one inextricably linked to the growing pains of baby boomers everywhere, listeners can tip their hats to its lyricist, Hy Zaret. The tale of a forlorn lover was recorded by more than 300 artists, most famously the Righteous Brothers in the mid '60s. Zaret...
DIED. BRIAN BLAINE REYNOLDS, 89, brash sports photographer of the '40s and '50s, and one of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED's first hires, known until 1964 as HY PESKIN; of kidney disease; in Herzliyya, Israel. Darting into seemingly unreachable spots, he captured such indelible images as Ben Hogan, left, wielding a 1-iron at the approach to the 18th hole at the 1950 U.S. Open and Joe DiMaggio finishing his grand swing at the 1949 All-Star game...
...book's publishers, Stewart Richardson, a former editor in chief of Doubleday Publishing, and Hy Steirman, the former owner of what was once the Paperback Library, incorporated in January. Richardson, who had previously obtained a book on foreign policy by Leonid Brezhnev, originally suggested similar works from Andropov and Konstantin Chernenko, both of whom died before they could complete their oeuvres. Negotiations for the Gorbachev book were completed in Moscow in September and were conducted without the knowledge of American authorities. The book was translated from Russian in Moscow, but will not be published there. The first printing...
...says. For instance, Hugh von Hofmannsthal, an author exemplary of the so-called “language crisis” studied in the course, is featured in several places in the exhibition. One Hofmannsthal quote, part of which lamentingly asks, “[W]hy seek again for words which I have foresworn!,” runs along the perimeter of the room above the works of visual art, elevated about eight-and-a-half feet off of the ground...